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Microsoft Applies For .NET Patent
Wojina writes "Microsoft has applied for a comprehensive patent on what appears to be the entire implementation of the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) and the framework APIs. Microsoft's CLR is an implementation of the CLI (submitted to ECMA for standardization). Does this bode ill for the Mono project? See the CNET News story." And a chaser: Nept points to this interesting Microsoft-funded .NET obfuscation project.
I think Donald Knuth has prior art.
Sorry, nevermind...
Looks like they are patenting. The concept of client server computing.
Well it looks like we all owe them everything.
Where should we send the check?
Hell, IIS opens *all* your computing resources to the distributed computing system
- The Blue Screen Of Death
- The 200-page EULA in a 5-line scroll-pane
- Solitaire as a Productivity Application
- FUD as a revenue-centre
Didn't they invent Al Gore also?The above is just as rediculous as the real thing.
--sex
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Please raise your hand if you thought Microsoft was going to allow .NET to be a reasonable and viable platform on non-Windows operating systems!
All of those raising your hands, please contact me. I have an exciting opportunity for you. I'm trying to get some money out of Nigeria.
-Teckla
Yeah, like the US Patent Office is really choosy about what they'll accept in the way of patents.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Dude, you really should not post the entire text of articles. It shows a total disrespect of copyright laws and is liable to get you fired someday, Anonymous Coward or no.
I don't know if the spelling mistake was intentional or not, but the irony of it makes it impossible not to comment... assertain... beautiful.
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
And here I thought .NET was a code obfuscation project!
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Do you honestly believe that we're going to slashdot CNet?
boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse
umm - .COM?
.COM and then submit a patent.
maybe like:
Internet Explorer
SQL Server
C umm - Sharp
word umm - just word, drop the perfect part
You would think that they could at least inovate a product name. Rename MONO
I don't see how this can fly. Mono has prior art on pretty much all of this.
You start by claiming the sun, moon and stars
You're absolutely right. They're going to work on the stars next year.
1. Patent patents
2. Sue USPTO
3. All your patents are belong to us
4. Profit!
And that probably owes inpiration to the USCD p-Code and p-Machine. Which probably owes something to something else... More begats than the Bible!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
New MS slogan: ".NET ain't done 'til Mono won't run."
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Also From Mono's FAQ
.NET software is ever successfully ported to Mono. Thus ensuring that Microsoft does not "cut off our air supply", if you know what we mean.
.NET (c), that Microsoft will introduce a raft of new APIs and features ensuring that our compatibility level will drop back below the required threshold. Because Microsoft learned at the knee of IBM, we are fairly certain that they will not let their products stagnate in a manner similar to AT&T's UNIX(tm).
Question 666: Will Mono ever be genuinely useful enough that Microsoft takes note?
No. Mono will be permanently between 60 and 75% complete. This should be enough to allow toy applications to run and advocates to trumpet our success, but far enough away that no Windows-oriented
Furthermore, we are sure that if some contributors ever bring us closer than 75-80% to source or binary compatibility with Microsoft
We've taken our inspiration from the other wunderkind Microsoft compatibility project, Wine. As most have noticed, Wine has avoided any legal or marketing attention from Microsoft due to systematic lack of useful compatibility. If RMS be with us, we achieve the same.
You're American, right?
:P
This is a pound sign: £
# is not. It's a hash. Most Americans seem to be confused on this, I hope this post clears it up
Besides, "C Pound" just sounds stupid.
Facts and balance have no meaning here. We're only interested in hysterical postings about how evil Microsoft is.
For instance, the fact that Sun owns several Java-related patents (including one that covers any 3-tier db applications) is meaningless. We like Java because it's not Microsoft and could care less that it's not open, GPL'd, or standardized even though we usually bitch about things that aren't.
No sig, sorry.
Besides, "C Pound" just sounds stupid.
I don't know, sounds like Microsoft's lawyer's usual tactics.
They might have a case for that one. :^)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Hehe, I worked with a lawyer at my company with a coupla workmates filing a patent we came up with for my company.
When we entered the room, we knew what it did, and the lawyer had no clue. When we left, we had no clue, and he seemed to be telling us what it did.
He really did research and stuff, real work he put in. But still its quite funny. They are English Obfuscators.
>You do realize that C doesn't include a standard GUI API, and that many programs require GUIs these days?
I suppose they didn't include one because they didn't want to pull a "java" and rewrite the GUI language all the time, making old code trash.
At least I can still compile K&R's "Hello World" test on GCC 3.0...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
when the old language was dangerous (buffer overflows, anyone? how about accidentally writing over array bounds?), then yes, they did. fucker.
Naw, dude. I talked with Bill the other day and he SAID it was cool.
He wouldn't lie to me, would he?
News Flash: "A new anti-trust law passed today requires microsoft ship its software with a new scratch and sniff sticker on all of its products. Lawmakers apparently want consumers to be able to smell the Evil that is Microsoft before making their purchases" But Chairman Bill Gates likes the smell so much that he is painting he new estate in florida with a paint modeled on the scratch and sniff stickers.
News Flash later that day: Microsoft is reportedly trying to aquire a patent on the smell of evil, The odor of fear and the stench of stupidity, all reported important for its next product release.
They're having trouble with the moon. Seems that a little-known government agency known as "NASA" went there before Microsoft even existed, thus claiming the moon before Microsoft ever did. Microsoft engineers are currently working on a magic time machine to overcome this obstacle.
All your moonbase are belong to us.
So you're saying we should call it Coctothorpe?
In other news...
Microsoft have recently announced funding for a new research project into the history of space travel. This will build up to culminate in a series of "one-off" TV shows hosted by former X-Files cast members, which will prove conclusively that man has never been to the moon.
A court case against NASA is expected to follow shortly, alleging that other "one-off" TV shows hosted by the same former X-Files cast members and describing man's visit to the moon were faked, and that Microsoft's reputation as the number one supplier of moon-based products has been irreparably damaged.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled Microsoft bashing.
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