Apple patents Swift
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This may be a storm in a teacup, or it may be a typhoon massing off the port bow. Apple has applied for a patent that appears to cover the whole idea of the Swift language.
Because that's what people are looking for in a programming language?
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This may be a storm in a teacup, or it may be a typhoon massing off the port bow. Apple has applied for a patent that appears to cover the whole idea of the Swift language.
Because that's what people are looking for in a programming language?
Once again, the US patent office proves that it is either f***ing insane, f***ing incompetent, or f***ing corrupt -- or a combination thereof. This is unbe-f***ing-lievable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This may be a storm in a teacup, or it may be a typhoon massing off the port bow. Apple has applied for a patent that appears to cover the whole idea of the Swift language.
Because that's what people are looking for in a programming language?
Did the patent office even look at this in any depth. They are claiming as invention lots of things that have been existing practice in programming for decades. This system is horribly broken.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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Did the patent office even look at this in any depth. They are claiming as invention lots of things that have been existing practice in programming for decades. This system is horribly broken.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
They looked to see if anyone else patented it. :rolleyes: If it's not patented the :elephant:ing :sunshine:s in the patent office don't believe it exists. X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X|
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Once again, the US patent office proves that it is either f***ing insane, f***ing incompetent, or f***ing corrupt -- or a combination thereof. This is unbe-f***ing-lievable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I couldn't agree more. Companies I have worked with have had to fight several patent lawsuits and in every case we were the plaintiff being sued to invalidate patents we owned and we settled just to cut the cost of the litigation. On principles alone we should have won every one of those suits but they didn't want to spend the money. My point is, there should not have been any money spent in the first place because those secondary patents were already covered by ours. The others should never have been granted in the first place. I get the feeling the patent office only hires people from the bottom twenty percent of their respective graduating classes.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"