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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by pnw_hazor on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:45PM (#19001010)
It is clear that you, like many commenters in this thread, have very little, if any, understanding of US patent law.

This patent is a nothing burger.

Don't take it personally. Patent law is about the most complex area of law. Most tech press blows it too.

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by shmerl on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:08PM (#19001995)
Patent law that allows software patents is already seriously messed up and urgently needs fixing. When it allows patenting programming languages, it's outright sick.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by pnw_hazor on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:02PM (#19002456)
Software based inventions aren't special, they are just new to the game.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by shmerl on Saturday January 26, 2019 @10:41PM (#19010232)
They are special enough to cause serious harm to progress if patented. This was demonstrated many times. Since the whole point of patents is to promote progress, software patents should not exist.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by maxdesiatov on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:18PM (#19002561)
From what we see, software patents have caused more harm than good, but would be great if there were enough concrete public examples listed somewhere that prove otherwise.
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