On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:23:43 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://www.xkcd.com/664/
> 
>   I wonder how many great programmatical inventions have been lost
> because they were made within the programming industry rather than the
> academia.

Indeed, and of course there are some concepts that nobody can use because 
they're made in the industry and patented by companies with armies of 
lawyers rather than in academia.  I wonder how different the software 
landscape would be today if some of the utterly stupid patents there are 
outstanding lawsuits about weren't covered by a patent.

Jim

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