[jrawk]

The problem here is this is a technology that has existed and been used in practice for over 5 years now, since 1997 or even earlier.

Now after the fact this one man company applies for and gets the patent for what? Not a single line of his code is being used, never did he create or could he have imagined the uses for.

How does it affect you? Well this little re-tooling will approach the number of lines of code needed to fix y2k. All for this mans claim he owns a programmatic "concept."

He may have one the patent, he may have won the lawsuit based on that. But if he ever get's a red cent in licensing it will encourage copy cats that will paralyze the digital age.

-- lates
-- jrawk

[supercat]

The problem here is this is a technology that has existed and been used in practice for over 5 years now, since 1997 or even earlier.

What exactly is being claimed? The concept of having code resources (separate from the application) manage an area within a window goes back to the original Macintosh which debuted in 1984. I don't know when Macintosh applications first made use of this ability, but certainly ResEdit plug-ins did so; all the necessary hooks existed from System 1.0. To be sure, some of these hooks made an excellent breeding ground for viruses and consequently anti-virus software had to limit some of the cool things that could otherwise be done, but those abilities go way back.

Can anyone explain what exactly Eolas is claiming they did which hadn't been done before?

[webstersII]

"How does it affect you? Well this little re-tooling will approach the number of lines of code needed to fix
y2k. "

Maybe you should have read the entire article. MS has a solution that they say will be ready soon and will get around the claims of this guy.