Why is the patent office just rubber stamping all these crazy patents. This is completely obvious as everyone has been using TO-DO lists for ever. Putting it into source code and then having a mechanism to find it and list it is considered new art?
Someone take their stamps away, please!!! On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Amarjeet Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<javaposse%[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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com -- 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.
