And you'll pay good money for the privilege of 'working around it'. Amazing. I am curious... when your clients encounter bugs in the software they purchased from you are you satisfied with letting them 'work around' those bugs?

I mean liability- staffed by the Keystone Cops and infrastructure that could probably be patented it's so original.

I just saw a patent for swinging a playground swing in an oval pathway. A month or so ago a patent was issued for using a key-ring laser to 'exercise' dogs and cats (letting them chase the spot around the floor). Those patents are amazing, too. Amazing that the US TPO would issue them, and that our congressmen/women would allow such a messed up agency to continue functioning the way it is. But, when the INS can issue visas to the 9-11 hijackers six months after they are dead it suggests there are no limits to incompetency of folks who operate monopolies.