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What an API is? Is actually fairly simple to figure out (from an experienced eye). | 543 comments | Create New Account
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Mod +5, This is so true
Authored by: celtic_hackr on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 02:03 PM EDT
It's simply ridiculous to try patents in a court of law, with or without a
jury.

Technology is so complex today, that only an expert in the field could determine
if a patent is:
a) valid,
b) infringed.

They don't allow juries to decide the law and technology is way more complicated
than the law. I'm sorry, but it is. The proof is right here, the Judge still
doesn't understand the tech, even after having an intensive training in it.

It takes years to develop sufficient expertise in any modern technological
field. The law is simple, but the application is complex. Technology makes
complex things look simple, but is just as complex. The whole system needs a
reboot.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

No
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 02:17 PM EDT
Absolutely not. Computer programming is a relatively simple affair and
languages are so similar that graduate students are expected to pick up a new
language for a course in the first week.

You have been fooled by the obfuscation and technobabble of corporations, and
perhaps by poor instruction in school.

There is an art to computer programming, in knowing how to break a problem down
into detailed steps and in knowing the kinds of steps the computer is good at or
not, but this is generalist knowledge.

It is perfectly reasonable to expect an expert to have detailed knowledge of
compilers, of operating systems, of computer CPUs and virtual memory, of
databases, and communications. There is so much overlap it is not hard.

Heck ... my first computer programming summer course at Columbia we drew logic
diagrams for an entire computer in just one week.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

  • Yes - Authored by: celtic_hackr on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 02:30 PM EDT
    • Yes er No - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 02:46 PM EDT
    • Yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 03:10 PM EDT
      • Yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 03:39 PM EDT
    • Yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 04:33 PM EDT
    • Yes - Authored by: blaisepascal on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 04:58 PM EDT
    • Yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 09:58 PM EDT
    • Engineering classes, not CS - Authored by: artp on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 10:53 PM EDT
    • Begging yer pardon, but... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 05:25 AM EDT
  • No - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 03:18 PM EDT
  • No - Authored by: Nivag on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 07:56 PM EDT
    • No - Authored by: rcsteiner on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 08:56 PM EDT
      • No - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 09:58 AM EDT
        • No - Authored by: rcsteiner on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT
What an API is? Is actually fairly simple to figure out (from an experienced eye).
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 03:42 PM EDT
What an API is? Is actually fairly simple to figure out (from an experienced
eye)! However, for a jury, with not a bit of computer science background...?
I would be nervous if on either side of the case with any jury who is ruling
one way or the other on a computer patent tech case.

Just get rid of Software Patents, and limit copyright for computer code to 7
years of protection (as by that time, it is forgotten code that is not related
to current programs... so, it gets a hundred years of protection, for what
purpose except to hinder progress in some way maybe)?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

    You must be a programmer...
    Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 05:38 PM EDT
    ...because you think the revolver, cotton gin, and telephone aren't very
    complex. Just try building one from scratch, and see how far you get. No
    fair using references to tell you how, that's what patents are all about after
    all. And no fair buying anything in a store. Making all that stuff (like steel
    and wire and whatnot) ain't so simple.

    I bet you wouldn't get very far. Very few people would. I bet you couldn't
    even find and identify all the ingredients for gunpowder, even though the
    formula is commonly known.

    [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

    Nice choice of 'things'
    Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 08:14 AM EDT
    Since all of those involved some amounts of patent dispute
    and litigation!

    [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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