"Wojtek Narczynski" <wojtek@power.com.pl> a �crit dans le message de news:5ad0dd8a.0308200255.4e00e2a9@posting.google.com...
> "Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.0.1061305632.321.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
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> Patents have already managed to hurt Ada development (to some small
> extent).
To a bigger extent, remember the DEC patent on partially sharing generics.
Everybody thinks the patent is invalid, (i.e. the algorithm was public before DEC
patented it), but no vendor dared to use it.

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