[Nottingham] Google Gets Umbrella Patent For Cloud Operating Systems

[Martin]

Folks,

Is this for real?!...


Google Gets Umbrella Patent For Cloud Operating Systems
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/google-cloud-chrome-os-patent,news-39826.html

"...the tone of the patent is much more than that. Google may have, in
fact, received a patent that covers client cloud operating systems in
general. ..."


Or is that another money-making ploy by the patents office and lawyers
in league with them to make money over all the ensuing arguments?

After all, if a certain company could patent use of the
rectangle-with-slightly-rounded-corners, who knows?... (And then again
for that example, is there not prior art in the mathematical
superellipsoid?...)


Disclaimer: All just my bemused observations and opinion! :-(

Cheers,
Martin

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