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Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued...
An anonymous reader writes " According to the patent application--filed in mid-November by Paul Vick, lead architect for Visual Basic .Net at Microsoft; Amanda Silver, a program manager on the Visual Basic team; and an individual in Bellevue, Wash., named Costica Barsan--the IsNot operator is described as a single operator that allows a comparison of two variables to determine if the two point to the same location in memory." This article continues the tale started last november, and here is an eWeek story on the same subject.
The GNAA owns you.
I am drunk, areems fails.
Wasn't that covered by Bill Clinton with ambiguaty of the meaning of "is"? Oh yeah, that wasn't patent office, that was under oath in court.
Shesh, appending that line to all company email leaving the email servers would be a much cheaper and much more effective way to spread the news. But then what do you expect to happen when a bunch of liberals get their hands on money? It gets wasted. The liberals in congress keep sending money to their pork projects busting Bush's balanced budget. It happens all the time.
Why, pray tell, should RealSoftware sue the USPTO because Microsoft filed an application for a patent? So far, there's no indication of whether the patent will be granted or not. So hold off on your "Let's sue the bastards rhetoric" for a while, and try to actually read the article for a change.