begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:23:25PM -0800:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:36:05PM -0800, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> >
> > A patent is for a Device, Method, Process or composition of matter.
> > So, the infringing stuff may not be lines of code ("device"), it
> > could be a method or process. Perhaps the method or process is
> > intrinsic to the whole work of the Mono/C# product.
>
> OK but considering that Mono/C# is just a knock off of JVM/Java I'm not sure
> what is patentable about it. Sure they claim you can mix different
> languages at compile time but surely this isn't the first time this was done
> anywhere is it?
I wrote mixed-language programs with Fortran + C + Pascal better than 10
years ago.
There's source to a program out there that will compile/run in several
different languages.
But then, the patent office hasn't been looking very closely at patents
for quite some time now.
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