3 ms·
That seems like a dangerous and foolish proposition to me. Just because IBM doesn't seem like a patent troll today, doesn't mean they won't tomorrow. Not to m
by tyler 18y ago
That seems like a dangerous and foolish proposition to me. Just because IBM doesn't seem like a patent troll today, doesn't mean they won't tomorrow.
Not to mention, just like a real arms race... It's not the government officials who are really in danger, it's all of the common people, or in this case, programmers.
- vaksel 18y agoif IBM has to resort to being a patent troll we ALL will have other things to worry about
- irrelative 18y agoI completely agree (even up-modded you!), but if you corner a rat, watch out.
- gravitycop 18y agoPatents only last 20 years, and besides that every resource is in theory substitutable anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it.
- asnyder 18y agoHow would you replace trim? According to the text of the patent any method that removes leading or trailing space would fall under protection of this patent. The only way would be to manually remove spaces character by character every time you ran your query. I definitely don't like the sound of that.
- gravitycop 18y agoHow would you replace trim? Why would I need to replace trim? Trim existed before the filing date of the application for patent. The patent does not cover trim. Why would one think that the patent does cover trim? According to the text of the patent any method that removes leading or trailing space would fall under protection of this patent. No, it wouldn't. The 2. Description of Related Art section states: Currently, TRIM functions, available in SQL, are used to remove leading and/or trailing space characters from data being presented to a user. Therefore, merely any method that removes leading or trailing space cannot be what is being claimed in the patent.