Hello dsimcha,
== Quote from BCS ([email protected])'s article
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?
Bits are not a "particular article".
We can hope! (I never said I supported software patents :)
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