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Are you stating your last two sentences as the result of researching these issues?

Because as a layperson, I would not have thought a company could get a patent on clicking a button to purchase an item online.

>>jancsi+(OP)
When you read HN comments it helps to preface them with “I feel like...”

>>ryanma+g3
Emphasis on "feeling", because there's seldom any thinking going on.

>>moonbu+d5
Or at least, you feel like there isn't

>>ryanma+g3
I upvoted you out of greyness because I feel like that is generally correct here. :)

Now that I've helped you out of the quicksand, let's do battle:

"[I feel like] it's not like there's some patent issue for using USB or wifi in your printer over whatever interface used in 2000 compared."

I could certainly try harder to finesse it, but I don't see any sensible place to insert a "YMMV" into any part of that sentence.

>>jancsi+(OP)
>Are you stating your last two sentences as the result of researching these issues?

Do you really believe "researching" is needed?

Like, in every other domain and product category, a company can slap a faster processor and more RAM to the next iteration - as they do -, but this is somehow prevented in printers by patents?

I'd say the extraordinary claim that needs extraordinary evidence is not mine...