From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-20 06:05:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!skymaster!nobody From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets? Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:49:26 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <5ad0dd8a.0308200255.4e00e2a9@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1061384469 19165 195.25.228.57 (20 Aug 2003 13:01:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:01:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41739 Date: 2003-08-20T14:49:26+02:00 List-Id: "Wojtek Narczynski" a �crit dans le message de news:5ad0dd8a.0308200255.4e00e2a9@posting.google.com... > "Robert C. Leif" wrote in message news:... > > 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr