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Non Practicing Entities - i.e. trolls.
by mythz 11y ago
Non Practicing Entities - i.e. trolls.
- JackFr 11y agoDamn. Cause if someone patented NullPointerExceptions they'd sure be rich.
- jkyle 11y agoDone. [1] 1. http://www.google.co.ug/patents/EP0881577A2?cl=fi http://www.google.co.ug/patents/EP0881577A2?cl=fi
- ScottBurson 11y agoThis is an extremely narrow patent that doesn't do anything like claiming all uses of null pointer exceptions. It just claims what strikes me as a rather minor optimization on how attempts to dereference a null pointer can be detected. It surprises me a little that it was considered worth patenting, but I guess it is fairly general in that it could be used in a lot of language implementations. The benefit is hardly worth writing home about, though.
- jkyle 11y agoMy tongue was firmly in cheek.
- ScottBurson 11y agoOops! Sorry, I missed it :-)
- bobwaycott 11y agoWhat the fuck.