Google Found Guilty in Android / Linux Patent Case
The Actual Issue At Hand....
This is a BOGUS patent...period....
The company in question asked for, and received, a patent on a process which has been an exercise in computer programming 101 for more than 40 years....
You need to know a little bit about computer science and computer programming to understand what I am about to say but...
The company patented the IDEA of using a linked list to perform hashing....
How common is this? I have a programming textbook from 1873 by Donald Knuth in which this is an exercise...
I myself did this does essentially this in BASIC at the end of 11 on an Apple IIe.....that was in 1986..
The patent was awarded in 1996....
This company took advantage of the technological ignorance of those who issue patents to win a...
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The company in question asked for, and received, a patent on a process which has been an exercise in computer programming 101 for more than 40 years....
You need to know a little bit about computer science and computer programming to understand what I am about to say but...
The company patented the IDEA of using a linked list to perform hashing....
How common is this? I have a programming textbook from 1873 by Donald Knuth in which this is an exercise...
I myself did this does essentially this in BASIC at the end of 11 on an Apple IIe.....that was in 1986..
The patent was awarded in 1996....
This company took advantage of the technological ignorance of those who issue patents to win a...
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Then it should be overturned on appeal do to prior art?
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Your last paragraph definetly makes sense to me!
---"The lesson from this is that we badly need patent reform, at the very least the patent office needs to consult with actual experts in the field to determine what is worthy of a patent and what is nothing more than total nonsense masquerading as an...
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T Bone said:
The company patented the IDEA of using a linked list to perform hashing....
How common is this? I have a programming textbook from 1873 by Donald Knuth in which this is an exercise...
Man, you sure ...
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Wait?
Since when does a company own the linux kernal. Wasn't that developed and owned by Linus?
To my understanding it isn't "the" Linux kernal but rather "a" linux kernal, which sounds to be the exact one that Google chose to use. This may have some effect on Android's future, but I don't think it will be anything major, or even something that ...
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So...
Do they write a check? Imagine that courier ride. I can see the memo now: "Got screwed by Linux". Signed, "Google".
bahahaha!!
No, Google didn't get screwed by Linux, they were screwed by a patent system that allowed a company to patent an idea that no one should be able to patent in the first place....
