The spesifics of their "patent" has been around for ages in Smalltalk and other enviornment, I do not believe that it will hold wather.
When the computer crashes violates my rights as well ;-)
Maybe if we just load the OR mapper from an external file? lol
Patents are OK in my opinion as long as there's an actual product. I don't like the idea of someone filing patents on every idea they can dream up, never intending to develop an actual product, with the intention of suing when someone else actually does develop a product.