Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Aug 2010 01:32 UTC, submitted by JeremyPoulson
I'm supposed to be asleep right now, but this news kind of hit me like a ton of bricks: Oracle is suing Google over its Android mobile operating system, claiming it infringes on its patented Java technology. Not a good week to be Google, is it?
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Member since:2005-08-09
wrong! there are a patents on specific code sequences
like this branchless abs
int const mask = v >> sizeof(int) * CHAR_BIT - 1;
r = (v ^ mask) - mask;
the code is of course dumb simple and used everywhere
this patent belongs to Sun BTW
I wish the whole chain of persons who are responsible of patenting such basic things be burned in hell forever.
Member since:2005-07-06
I just don't get that kind of stuff.
If I come up with some way of doing something more efficiently in our code, I immediately share it with my co-workers. If it is non-work-related code that I am working on (maybe not efficient but for fun) I even share it on places like DeviantArt.
Member since:2007-09-06
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2005-07-06
You do not patent a 'code', maybe mechanisms. But i guess there are always workarounds for that.