Fun patent of the day
Fun patent of the day
Posted Aug 23, 2008 15:24 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)Parent article: Fun patent of the day
This is almost as hilarious as what I read about back in 1999, concerning the new "innovation" Microsoft had for NTFS on Windows 2000: the "disk file pointer", a file which acted as a transparent link to another file.
That's right, MS was claiming symbolic links as an "innovation". It's a wonder they didn't try to patent the idea then.
Posted Aug 23, 2008 21:16 UTC (Sat)
by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
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Surely that was an innovation, since it was not just a symbolic link, but a symbolic link on NTFS! It must be greatest thought ever.
Fun patent of the day
> That's right, MS was claiming symbolic links as an "innovation".