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Authored by: kawabago on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 02:35 PM EDT |
How long can Apple stay ahead of the innovation curve if
their engineers aren't aware of their own work? I guess they
re-invent the wheel for each iPhone.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 02:59 PM EDT |
From my personal experience - I often write little snippets of code, something
specific to a problem I have right at the moment, solve the problem, move on.
Later, I may find that I had written the same, or similarly serviceable, code
for some other problem that I'd subsequently forgotten about.
The problem isn't that the developer maliciously solved the same problem twice.
It's that the corporate lawyer-beasts are so ravenous for something to feed
their patent-application appetites that they're perfectly happy applying for
patents on throw-away code snippets - things which are so thoroughly immemorable
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Authored by: esni on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 04:33 AM EDT |
IANAL etc. and I don't particularly like patents.
I expect the reason for the patents from the same guy could be that after 2
years the first was still not granted so he (or his boss) decided there was a
need to file an improved version.
Eventually both got granted and the second seems to be killed by the first
filed...
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Eskild
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