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Take a read at the most ridiculous example of why software patents need to banned

The web community world wide seriously has to stand up against this. Granted, these ridiculous patents is limited to the US, but what patents that are on the web doesn’t affect everyone? The web itself knows no boundaries of location.

What they’ve done is seemingly patented an architure of how the web works in modern days back in 2002. If I remember correctly AJAX did come about in or around 2002 officially but I suppose what’s interesting is that according to wikipedia, the land of wrong information. The term AJAX was ‘coined’ by a certain individual in 2005 yet in that patent it seems to have used the term (not entirely sure, but the reports around the web is using this term in relation to the patent)

Anyway though, I can’t understand why Flash is also infringing the patent, is it because of it’s ability to interact with javascript? ’cause I’m pretty sure Flash has been around since 1996.