Much dryer and it would've been the desert. [LWN.net]

Much dryer and it would've been the desert.

Posted Nov 22, 2006 6:22 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
Parent article: Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat

A computer system having a memory, an operating system, a computer application instantiated in a work space in the memory as managed by the operating system, the application including a plurality of application processes running in the work space, and an application monitor monitoring whether each of the plurality of application processes is in fact running and automatically attempting to remedy an occurrence where any of the plurality of application processes is not in fact running.
This ground-breaking, innovative work was patented in 2004; presumably, nobody ever thought of such a technique before 1999, when the patent was originally filed.

Init? Is that you? Where have you been ol' buddy?

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Much dryer and it would've been the desert.

Posted Nov 22, 2006 6:24 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

(Or Apache, or any of a number of programs that manage a pool of tasks, lest you take my comment the wrong way.... Init just seems to be the first in so many ways--especially in PID.)

It's worse than that!

Posted Nov 22, 2006 8:45 UTC (Wed) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link]

Maybe I'm a bit more pessimistic, but it reads to me like Microsoft has patented the Dell server running Red Hat in my data center.

It's worse than that!

Posted Nov 22, 2006 15:52 UTC (Wed) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

Microsoft != BellSouth