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Re:Why I hate software patents: IBM patents trim() by gaius on Friday January 16, 2009 @05:55PM (#437421)
To be fair there's been CHAR and VARCHAR for 20 years, but no-one has done what they're proposing. IBM probably make everyone patent everything they do.
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Re:Why I hate software patents: IBM patents trim() by ambition on Friday January 16, 2009 @09:55PM (#437683)
Not quite. IBM provides strong incentives to patent inventions. It also makes it very easy for an engineer to do so.
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