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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by tom_mellior on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:18AM (#19005581)
> I personally think that if someone reimplement Swift, name it Schwift, guarantee it’s 200% faster (for some reasons), and then sell commercial licence of that it should be sued

Should? What rule, law, or moral code does it break to reimplement something?

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by wool_gather on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:36PM (#19007967)
If you start from a position of strong support for broad legal protection of "intellectual property", I can see that there would be an argument that a programming language as a whole could be locked up by a patent. As a possible analogy, (my understanding is that) Lego held a patent on the bricks at some point, and no clones could be produced because of that.

Like you, I would have a pretty hard time being convinced that this was actually a good idea, though.

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