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Patents are the death of further invention?
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Ryan Tomayko wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Bob Foster wrote:
> > Ryan Tomayko wrote:
> >> <http://tinyurl.com/54f52>
> >> United States Patent: 6,880,125
> >> System and method for XML parsing
>
> > There are push and pull variant APIs for *all* event-driven processes
> > and any push variant is trivially converted to pull by multi-threading
> > or coroutines. This fact has been exploited in communications since
> > God was a boy.
>
> Maybe the patent office needs some faith based initiative?
>
> > Talk about obvious to the expert practitioner!
>
> Ha!
>
> > (Don't think much of the developers who did the web pages that don't
> > show you the images of the patent application, either.)
>
> But the "Add to Cart" button is a nice touch.
>
> Ryan
>
>
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