Anivar Aravind said on Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:52:10PM +0800,:

I must say that in my entire life, I've never seen anything quite as stupid as what M$ has done this week -- i.e.patenting "clicking technology".

Groklaw has an excellent article on this; see

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040605025933409

I think I'll figure out a way to take an old Atari 2600 joystick and turn it into a clickless mouse....

Nah. No chance. Patents like this cover *concepts*. Not things. It covers double clicks. At first glance, this patent covers even the pause `button' on the tape recorder your gran presented you.

Have a sleepless night!!!