I was wondering myself why they bothered to patent this as the scope of the patent seems so narrow as to really not be worth the hassle.
But.
If k4_pacific is right, then this is M$'s first step toward quashing non-M$ implementations of.NET (Mono, anyone?).
Quite possibly they had some serious brains sitting around a table coming up with an ordinal list of items that would make it difficult or impossible for someone to implement a third party CLR without. Just substitute IL for source code and it's there.
The Alexis de Toqueville Institution announced today that they are clairfying their name to Alexis de Toke'n Some Institution.
In addition to their name change, they also announced that effective immediately, their corporate cafeteria would only serve grilled cheese sandwiches.
1) Find a store that has a policy that will allow you to bring it back. 2) Pick up what you're salivating over in the store. 3) Take home: word process, hack, frag, or whatever floats your boat. 4) Repeat as necessary for n - 5 days (where n is the length of time you have to return it). I say minus five since I always miss the date by a day or two. 5) If you are in love with the monitor, keep it. Otherwise, take it back, chose another monitor. 6) Lather, rinse, repeat.
I did that at Fry's when I was looking for a new LCD monitor. I purchased something that looked great (and the salesperson said rocked) at the store, but when I brought it home- ugh.
I took it back and picked up a 16" Sony LCD. Zero defective pixels. Excellent res and definition. Zero regrets.
Remember, it's all about having a _choice_. Anything which gives us more freedom to chose the how and what of what it is we do is a Good Thing (R).
And look at it from this standpoint: if we a working CLR (Common Language Runtime) for Linux, then we have an almost-idiotproof way of getting Linux in the door at historically Microsoft only companies (for example, mine).
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.NET (Mono, anyone?).
I was wondering myself why they bothered to patent this as the scope of the patent seems so narrow as to really not be worth the hassle.
But.
If k4_pacific is right, then this is M$'s first step toward quashing non-M$ implementations of
Quite possibly they had some serious brains sitting around a table coming up with an ordinal list of items that would make it difficult or impossible for someone to implement a third party CLR without. Just substitute IL for source code and it's there.
The Alexis de Toqueville Institution announced today that they are clairfying their name to Alexis de Toke'n Some Institution.
In addition to their name change, they also announced that effective immediately, their corporate cafeteria would only serve grilled cheese sandwiches.
The only way to purchase a monitor:
1) Find a store that has a policy that will allow you to bring it back.
2) Pick up what you're salivating over in the store.
3) Take home: word process, hack, frag, or whatever floats your boat.
4) Repeat as necessary for n - 5 days (where n is the length of time you have to return it). I say minus five since I always miss the date by a day or two.
5) If you are in love with the monitor, keep it. Otherwise, take it back, chose another monitor.
6) Lather, rinse, repeat.
I did that at Fry's when I was looking for a new LCD monitor. I purchased something that looked great (and the salesperson said rocked) at the store, but when I brought it home- ugh.
I took it back and picked up a 16" Sony LCD. Zero defective pixels. Excellent res and definition. Zero regrets.
"Coffee needs a cup, not a menu." - Dennis Leary, No Cure For Cancer Amen brother. . .
Remember, it's all about having a _choice_. Anything which gives us more freedom to chose the how and what of what it is we do is a Good Thing (R).
And look at it from this standpoint: if we a working CLR (Common Language Runtime) for Linux, then we have an almost-idiotproof way of getting Linux in the door at historically Microsoft only companies (for example, mine).