Linked lists are patented
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| Is this true? http://www.google.com/patents?id=26aJAAAAEBAJ More in-depth, it's a spin on the linked-list, so it's not the same. |
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| Pretty much everything under the sun is patented, and then some. It's impossible to write more than three lines of code and not violate half a dozen patents in the process. |
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| The filing date for that was 2002, linked lists are way older than that. This would not stand a dispute in court for 2 secs. |
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| AmigaOS /System had linked list... and it is from 1985, so how the US Patent office allows this? Bah |
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| This patent seems to be for a specific kind of LL which has several points to other nodes. Looking at the drawings, it doesn't seem to be the usual "normal" LL. |
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| patent my ass i hate those creeps who has so much money and still trying to grip more and more by patenting every stupid line of code. |
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| patent my ass They probably already have! :DThis patent business is funny. |
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| haha :) |
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| It's impossible to write more than three lines of code and not violate half a dozen patents in the process. I think I will have to see if my lawyer does discounts. |
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| The filing date for that was 2002, linked lists are way older than that. This would not stand a dispute in court for 2 secs. Except it would, because it's not a patent for linked lists (as MikeHart points out). |
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