TVI to Sue Over MS Autoplay Feature

scubacuda links to this Infoworld article, which reads in part "TVI charges Microsoft's autoplay feature infringes on four of its U.S. patents. TV Interactive Data Corp. (TVI) of Los Gatos, California, claims that Microsoft infringes on four of its U.S. patents, three entitled 'host device equipped with means for starting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media' and one entitled 'method for starting up a process automatically on insertion of a storage media into a host device.", writing "I hope no one has a patent on the shift key, because that's what I hit when I insert a CD. (That is, when I haven't already edited the registry)" Wouldn't automount / autofs fall under the same shadow?

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ugh

[rwven]

This rediculous patent system seriously needs some major reform.... This sueing is getting downright laughable...

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[rwven]

i'm really getting sick of the overzealous fags around here taking trolls on perfectly legitimate posts. This is as rediculous as the patent system... Whoever labeled this a troll obviosly doesn't have a flippin clue about how sad the current patent system is here...