Patenting the conecpt of Patents and links

I wonder if the concept of Patents is patented.
Anyway, a few links which discuss the stupidity and greed of people concerning patents:

Believe it or not! Some ass**** patented the idea of swinging on a swing, and I'm not even talking about Java.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6368227-fulltext.html


Legendary Richard Stallman talks about the implications of software patents.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jun/20/comment.comment


Read this idea for a patent.

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050160005%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20050160005&RS=DN/20050160005


A small article software programmers.

http://gadgetopia.com/post/2727

Code (S)talkers

I bet there must be more than a few people you know who seem to have a solution for all your programming (software development in general incl. design et all) problems. In fact listening to them you almost always end up agreeing that they are correct, this is until you actually try putting their suggestions into practice. They almost never work. The solutions usually involve less work, but they screw up the design, all the beautiful decoupling you had done, everything good the project ever had suddenly goes up in smoke.

You'll also notice that such people rarely write any code themselves, what I mean is that you must be writing tonnes of codes while making cool utilities, reusable classes etc, but this bunch never does any of this. They just talk.

So, beware of the code (s)talkers!