Email isn&#x27;t patented, not it the web, nor is TCP&#x2F;IP, nor is any one of dozens of non-patented inventions you use on a daily basis. If TCP&#x2F;IP was patented, do you think you&#x27;d see the Internet as we know it today? Would NetFlix, or Wikipedia or even Google would exist in the form it is now? I don&#x27;t think so.<p><i>edit:</i> removed the &quot;that&#x27;s ridiculous&quot; comment. I&#x27;m sorry, you aren&#x27;t ridiculous, nor is your comment. That showed you a great deal of disrespect, and I was out of line. I hope you can accept this apology. My disagreement with your argument should never have led to disrespectful comments.<p>(I just hit the up vote arrow)<p>I think some of my other comments have this language in them. That&#x27;s unfortunate, it&#x27;s just this is just the first one I noticed.