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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: 3, Insightful) by Subsentient on Monday January 28 2019, @05:44AM (2 children)

    by Subsentient (1111) on Monday January 28 2019, @05:44AM (#792904) Homepage Journal

    Eat shit and die in a fire, Apple.

    Tim Cook, you're human garbage who's turning a once respectable company into a cancer that is devouring the IT sector and consumer's rights.

    --
    "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:07AM (#792915)

    once respectable

    Apple ][

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Mykl on Monday January 28 2019, @11:15PM

    by Mykl (1112) on Monday January 28 2019, @11:15PM (#793293)

    If Apple is using the Apache license to make sure that the feature is available, then my guess is that they are filing the patent to prevent it from falling into a patent troll's hands.

    I am no fan of software patents, and look forward to the day that they are all scrapped. In the meantime, the more patents that stay out of the hands of 'bad actors', the better. While Apple has engaged in patent-litigation many times before, they also have a fairly good record of sharing and open-sourcing some of their work too. I won't call them angels, but this particular activity could well be in good faith.