On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 09:36:30 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 09:28:17 UTC, monarch_dodra
wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 09:20:49 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 09:08:24 UTC, Chris wrote:
Of course, the whole lot of them! I only wonder who they're
trying to attack here? It must be some sort of strategy to
put someone they deem dangerous off his stride. Probably the
open source community and / or a competitor. I don't know
the laws in the US and don't know how serious this is. It
probably can't just be ignored. Is there some other big
company they're trying to get at with this? Maybe they're
preparing a counter strike.
Yeah, IMO these patents can't be a coincidence.
Big companies file patents. All of them do. That's just the
way it is. I wouldn't see anything more to it than that. It's
not some conspiracy or corporate war.
That's the way the game is played. We just need to make sure
we don't become the losers here. It would help to have input
from Walter here though: It's his language, and, AFAIK, he
also happens to be savvy with this kind of stuff.
Their brand new type qualifier is the same as D's one. They
even copied the name "immutable". Maybe it's part of a
strategy, maybe not. In any case it's a "thief", I don't like
this word because you can't steal an idea, but they took
ownership of it.
From a linguistic point of view it is only logical one should
come up with the word "immutable" in this context. If something
(data, objects) are not "mutable" they are "immutable" (this may
sound trivial but it is not). I suppose they filed the patent,
because concurrency, thread safety and multi core programming
have become so important over the last couple of years, and
because it has become clear that some sort of "immutable" type is
needed. Thus, they seek to get ownership of the word/idea/concept
(which is ridiculous of course) to (pre-emptively) knock out
others (or get money for it by licensing it to others, including
those they stole it from). A shame, really.
