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When programmers look at a lot of software patents, they say this is ridiculously obvious! Patent bureaucrats have all sorts of excuses to justify ignoring what programmers think. They say &ldquo;Oh! But you have to consider it in terms of the way things were 10 or 20 years ago&rdquo;. Then they discovered that if they talk something to death then you can eventually lose your bearings. Anything can look unobvious if you tear it apart enough, analyze it enough. You simply lose all standard of obviousness or at least lose the ability to justify any standard of obvious or unobvious. Then, of course, they describe the patent holders as brilliant inventors, all of them. Therefore we can't question their entitlement to power over what we can do.