Acccording to InfoQ the patent case against Hibernate was meticulously planned.
- They filed the suit in the one place where no patent case was lost
- They filed the suit right within the JBoss Red Hat due dilligence period (either instant settlement by JBoss or a possible cancellation of the acquisition)
Unfortunately we haven’t heard the last of this.
Repeat after me:
With this rush to get rich using stupid ideas, I was thinking that we should patent the “.” usage in source code. Than I guess all of us behind this initiative will be in a couple of days the richest boys in town.
stupid software patents… SOFTWARE PATENTS ARE BAD AND STUPID
./alex
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.w( the_mindstorm )p.