Kodak sued Sun over a patent it holds for 'a method by which a program can "ask for help" from another application to carry out certain computer-oriented functions.' Now Sun has settled and will cross-license IP with Kodak. It seems a lot of developers are scratching their head over this one. Methods have existed for programs to communicate and share data to "help" each other for years before this patent existed. Not only vague and nebulous, prior art throws the validity of this patent ...