Comic Transcript

JIM WASHINGTON: Today, in an announcement that sent shock waves across the industry, a computer company announced that it was suing another computer company over some kind of patent about something so mind-numbingly obvious that even an idiot could see that there was prior art.

JIM WASHINGTON: A bunch of people have very strong opinions about this, and they're pretty much the same strong opinions they had the last time this happened.

JIM WASHINGTON: Which was, according to my notes, exactly four hours ago.

(NEWS TICKERTAPE: Breaking: IBM begs court to throw out SCO suit on grounds that suit has negative impact on intelligence of everyone involved... "I can barely tie my shoes," lawyer [feed is cut off])