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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:25AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:25AM (#792918)

    Apple is dying.

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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @08:10AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @08:10AM (#792925)

    Apple is dying again?

    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @08:34AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @08:34AM (#792930)

      Stop talking to yoself, you crazy AC fuck.

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday January 28 2019, @02:30PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 28 2019, @02:30PM (#793004) Journal

      Apple is dying again?

      Apple is dying still.

      As a once card carrying Apple fanboy and long time developer in the 80's and 90s, those of us would laugh at the fact of the frequent predictions Apple is dying, going out of business, etc. Apple has been dying or going out of business each and every year since 1981. Although in the years since the iPhone, I think people finally quit predicting that.

      I hadn't become anti-Apple until the smartphone patent wars. Bouncy scrolling? Slide to unlock? Really? In one foreign court, (don't remember details now), in an Apple vs Samsung patent suit over tablet designs, Apple claimed, with a straight face, that of the universe of design possibilities, that Samsung had chosen to make its tablets thin and light weight. As if doing so was some kind of exclusive right of Apple.

      Today, I would not mind one bit to see Apple slide into irrelevance and disappear.

      --
      The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.