[ale] OT: Microsoft to patent .NET

[Bob Toxen]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 07:50:59AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Does it surprise you at all??

> 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.

Prior art is not patentable (when the Patent Office is being competent).
In other words, if it's already being done, it is not patentable.  Thus,
if Mono was done before the M$ patents were filed, the patents should be
turned down by the patent Office.

> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/02/11/0048208.shtml?tid=109&tid=155


> Check out the link on the intentional obfuscation project also:

> http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/progtools/projects/dotnet.html

> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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