On 1/09/2014 9:43 p.m., monarch_dodra wrote:
On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 05:56:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
What I don't intend to do is patent D's innovations. What D has done
is our gift to the programming community. I'm also glad we're using
github, as it is a fine way to document and timestamp the provenance
of D's features.
Isn't there some way to "open source" a patent? Or at least, make some
sort of formal publication that this was invented, and may not be
patented by someone else?
Just because you don't want to "lock down" your inventions, doesn't mean
they are free to take...
Then again, it takes a certain kind of corporate greed to try to put a
patent on things we'd have never thought of as "inventions".
Did we patent UFCS yet? It's an invention.
How about CTFE? That seems like a *huge* invention?
We didn't invent it. The only thing we did is make it as another part of
the "normal" part of the language. LISP family of languages have had the
ability to use CTFE for ages.
What about generic tuples? No language I know of uses these.
Static if? Let's patent that too while we're at it.
