--- title: > First-come First-served Intellectual Property date: 2004-07-30 03:12 status: published description: > More proof, if proof were needed, that the plane of existence we like to call the universe, is categorically bonkers links: - url: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/29/2225246 title: > Microsoft Wants more Credit for Inventions (Slashdot) rel: via type: text/html ---

How can there be no prior art for this?! I'm not surprised no-one bothered patenting it.