On 10/10/10 13:41 , Russel Winder wrote:
Notwithstanding the fact that such a patent should never have been
granted (*) I suspect that Microsoft have lost their opportunity to
enforce this patent against the likes of Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA,
CodeBlocks, etc. as these products have had apparently offending
features for much of the intervening 6 years -- unless they already have
enforced and settled, and it all happened behind closed doors.
Again, this is not a valid point. The patents that Oracle is trying to
enforce against Google are about some basic principles of a VM and are
as old as the 'TODO' thing, and in the meantime many manufacturers
developed similar technologies. But the bomb exploded in delay (ok, one
could argue that there was the defensive-only attitude of Sun, but I
don't think it really made a difference). Again, we must think as a
patent just as a weapon waiting for a casus belli to be used.
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