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Apple Patents Programming Language Feature

posted by martyb on Monday January 28 2019, @05:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Copywrong dept.

Apple's mobile phone language Swift has some sort of "optionals chaining" that Apple finds novel enough to patent.

From the discussion, it appears Apple is intentionally using an Apache 2 license to ensure that access to this feature remains freely available. (Insert obligatory IANAL disclaimer.) Any Soylentils care to weigh in?

https://forums.swift.org/t/apple-is-indeed-patenting-swift-features/19779

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Monday January 28 2019, @12:27PM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday January 28 2019, @12:27PM (#792961) Journal

    Apple has enough money and clout to actually do something about software patents. That they behave in a so utilitarian way tells me they are just another brand in the system.
    Apple rested on its laurels three times already, a pretty lucky company in a world where the first big mistake is usually also the last.

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