fighting against an open source monopoly. [LWN.net]

fighting against an open source monopoly.

Posted Oct 25, 2007 17:29 UTC (Thu) by dion (subscriber, #2764)
In reply to: fighting against an open source monopoly. by nix
Parent article: A potential competitor for GCC: pcc

As far as I remember IBM has a patent on hierarchical menus, that they slapped SCO with in
their counter suit, so I wouldn't be too surprised if someone turns out to have an equally
basic patent on compiler construction.

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fighting against an open source monopoly.

Posted Oct 26, 2007 10:26 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Compilers are old enough that the really basic stuff should have expired (*if* someone didn't
re-patent it, which would of course be an invalid patent, not that that stopped anyone
before).