Who has the patent to the typewriter? Probably it would then extend to keyboard too.
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.dzone.com/links/r/microsoft_patents_ide_todo_list.html > > "US Patent No. 6,748,582, granted and assigned on Tuesday to Microsoft, > covers the use of a "task list" in a software-development environment. The > patented technology essentially integrates certain comments left in the > source code of an application under development with an accompanying > checklist. Leave a "TODO" comment in the source code, and an authoring > application automatically creates an item in the task list. Check an item > off on the task list, and the corresponding source code comment is changed." > > > So, now Microsoft is entitled in suing Oracle, the Eclipse Foundation, > IntelliJ and many others. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Amarjeet Singh Phone: +91-98712-76661 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
