What programming languages should I learn?
heh I thought you both might of been, but it had been a LONG night and I wasnt really able to distinguish it.
right, because they own the concept of the mark up language and/or I'm using their source.
edit: I'm almost sure your joking, but lol. again I'm dead tired..
edit edit: also good luck winning that case If they do own the concept of mark up languages. I'm not selling it, it's not being freely distributed (Free as in free speech) It would only be for academia and purposes there in.
edit: I'm almost sure your joking, but lol. again I'm dead tired..
edit edit: also good luck winning that case If they do own the concept of mark up languages. I'm not selling it, it's not being freely distributed (Free as in free speech) It would only be for academia and purposes there in.
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| good luck winning that case If they do own the concept of mark up languages. I'm not selling it, it's not being freely distributed (Free as in free speech) It would only be for academia and purposes there in. |
I'm fairly sure that wouldn't hold up in court - "I was only downloading movies for academic purposes and I'm not distributing them!".
Patents and copy rights work a little differently. But thats besides the point. They can't hold a patent on mark up languages, and no one can.
Ah, but that is where you are wrong! I am Mark U. Language and I hold the patent on markup languages. Right now I have to go convince the WWW consortium to officially change "HTML" to "Hypertext George-Up Language".
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They can't hold a patent on mark up languages |
Oh, I wouldn't be so sure. Microsoft got a patent on "operating system shutdown" recently. :D
Anyway, I'm almost sure someone holds a patent for a programming language with markup syntax or something similar.
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@xorebxebx,
That was only one particular shutdown algorithm, not the concept of shutting an operating system down. You can't patent things that other people are already using, can you?
That was only one particular shutdown algorithm, not the concept of shutting an operating system down. You can't patent things that other people are already using, can you?
| You can't patent things that other people are already using, can you? |
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You can't patent things that other people are already using, can you? |
Theoretically you can't. But as history shows, everything is possible in US.
Patenting algorithms is stupid.
That's not what the Pirate Party is about. They want to fix the patent and copyright systems, not disregard them completely.
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Even though a certain user who promotes the language on this forum like it's the second coming of christ in code form, and is quite annoying, I gave Scala a try and have to say it's quite a nice language.