Hello dsimcha,
== Quote from Brad Roberts ([email protected])'s article
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Seems a weak reason. A programmer that's worried about infringing
software patents can't write anything more useful than "Hello
World". I'm seriously not convinced at all that it's even possible
to write useful code that doesn't technically infringe on some
software patent. As a programmer, either you accept the fact that
what you do is inevitably going to trample software patents, or you
just simply don't be a programmer. That's all there is.
The world's not nearly that black and white. There's a huge
difference in
infringment in an app you write for yourself vs an app that's very
public.
LLVM is somewhat closer to the latter end of the spectrum.
I agree that excess paranoia isn't warranted, but neither is willful
ignorance.
If we're really lucky, Bilski Vs. Kappos
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski) will send all the software
patent attorneys to the poorhouse next week and we can just start
trampling freely.
OTOH, based on the wiki, the court seems to support a "Machine-or-transformation
test" and what is a compiler if not a transformation tool?
--
... <IXOYE><
