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On 28.07.2015 11:28, Richard Bos wrote:
> "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 28.07.2015 04:13, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>
>>> <http://www.google.com/patents/US8739022>
>>>
>>> Another paper - I've lost the link - asserts Parallel XML Parser (PXP)
>>> is unsuited to large documents.
>>
>> I'll try not to read anything like that above, to avoid being caught up
>> in whatever thought pattern the author, or authors, have.
>>
>> This patent thing opens up another can of worms, hopefully will a
>> history on GitHub and comp.lang.c scare anyone who wants to run away
>> with whatever unique thing I might come up with as a patent.
>>
>> One thing is having legal muscle, another is to look like a moron.
>
> Sadly, when it comes to software patents, sufficient legal muscle means
> you never have to admit you look like a moron until you run into someone
> with even more legal muscle. (See also: Apple.)

Well I know if I get into something like that, I'll probably blog and
tweet about it.

It would be nice if some legal experts would dissect these cases and
tell what's really going on, then the rest of us could talk about it
and know which companies to avoid working for or buying products from.

Realistically though, it looks like at some level this is a game that
big companies play, and that it is very unlikely that big companies
will go after "the little guy".

I'm more worried about various lesser known companies that can work
on big company agendas or even other people's personal agendas without
it being obvious.  Or people that have found a rather dubious way of
making money.

-Morten

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setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 20:50 +0200
  Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-28 00:22 +0100
    Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-27 21:00 -0400
      Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state,   threads] Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-28 13:57 +1200
        Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state,   threads] Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-27 22:13 -0400
          Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state,     threads] Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-28 17:12 +1200
            Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-28 09:46 -0400
          Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 10:07 +0200
            Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-07-28 09:28 +0000
              Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 11:41 +0200
                Re: Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-07-28 20:53 -0500
                Re: Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 05:15 +0200
                Re: Patents, was [Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads]] Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-07-28 22:34 -0600
      Re: OT - XML Parallel Parsing, was [Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads] Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-07-28 03:06 +0100
    Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 10:44 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-28 22:14 +1200
        Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 15:17 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-28 08:35 -0400
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-07-28 10:29 -0400
        Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 16:39 +0200
  Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-07-28 06:47 -0700
    Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 16:56 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2015-07-28 18:04 +0200
      Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-07-28 10:53 -0700
        Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 04:59 +0200
  Re: setjmp, longjmp, parser state, threads Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-07-28 16:29 +0100

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