The USPO trumps its previous stupid moves by rewarding ActiveBuddy an all-ecompassing patent on IM bot creation. Luckily, there is enough prior art (especially on the Perl side) to negate this quickly.
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Thanks for stopping by. My name is Rowell Sotto. I'm a software developer and general creative from Chicago living in the Bay Area. This personal site is a dump: for thoughts about life, culture, technology, ephemera, suchforth and whatnot. In other words, it's about nothing, if you want to get technical on me. I hope you enjoy your visit.