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Patent?Patent?Posted Nov 23, 2010 18:40 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs
At least as jarring to me as the Biblical reference was the patent reference: "In fact this is such a clever and original idea that the inventor, Dennis Ritchie, was granted a patent for the invention."
I think it's been quite well documented on this site that the granting of a patent does not necessarily mean that an idea is very clever or original.
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Patent? Posted Nov 23, 2010 21:03 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]
Sorry, but it seems I'm not very good at irony. I try to avoid the excesses of sarcasm and just end up sounding naive. But I'll never improve without practice, so thanks for the feedback.
Patent? Posted Nov 23, 2010 21:17 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
Ah, sorry, I could just be dense.
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