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Apple's patent attackApple's patent attackPosted Mar 4, 2010 0:45 UTC (Thu) by mrpippy (guest, #57134)In reply to: Apple's patent attack by BenHutchings Parent article: Apple's patent attack
Object Technology Licensing actually isn't NeXT (NeXT is apparently still maintained as a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, and owns its own patents).
Object Technology Licensing is the IP holding company that came out of Taligent (a Apple/IBM joint venture in the early '90s to build a new OS). When Taligent folded, IBM got the rights to the code, and Apple got the rights to the patents, now held by OTL Corp.
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Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 4, 2010 4:00 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
Since Taligent never shipped anything, this seems to make OTL a patent troll...
Apple's patent attack Posted Mar 5, 2010 21:33 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Oh, they shipped one thing: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=527980
There is no better book on middleware and mid-90s software architecture.
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