Steve said in the article, "It almost seems as though digital ideas and software defy analogies and explanations that we can relate to the real world."

Like all of you, I'm in IT and while I can't speak for everyone else, I still find a lot of tech-talk conversations difficult to understand. For example, I live in an MS world and don't relate much to Apple/Linux discussions though I do try to pick through them. Again, it's difficult. I can only imagine what it would be like to be a layman, like a juror that has to sit and muddle through the facts of some court case that contains today's technology lexicon. I imagine patent regulation is much the same.