@chuckleslord @RedGreenBlue not a bad scam considering back in the 90s and 00s a ton of garbage patents were granted for "(obvious established real-world thing) but on a computer" leading to a bunch of blatantly fraudulent lawsuits that some Texas dumbasses said were valid coughbecausetheywerepaidoffcough for some reasonFolks making and enforcing laws are amazingly vulnerable to fundamentally meaningless semantics when there's money to be made