Re: [aspectj-users] Patent on AOP/AspectJ?

[Thomas SMETS <tsmets@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not because a Company decided to patent & even licence a technology 
that it's bad ...
It's just under they own "responsability" / "ownership" !
Thomas,


ndlesiecki@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The following patent was pointed out to me by an associate (Dennis
> Sonoski):
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,467,086.WKU.&OS=PN/6,467,086&RS=PN/6,467,086
>
> To my untutored eyes, it seemed to be a patent on AOP in general. It also
> seems to cover AspectJ specifically:
>
> "The present invention presents a general-purpose aspect-oriented
> programming paradigm. The environment embodying the present invention is
> called AspectJ, and avoids the shortcomings of prior art programming
> paradigms. AspectJ is an extension to the Java programming language. In
> AspectJ, object code is encapsulated in Java classes, and aspect code is
> encapsulated in special program modules called "aspects"."
>
> Can anyone more familiar with patents in general (or this one specifically)
> comment on the significance of this patent and its interactions with
> AspectJ's licence? Will this affect the commercial future of AspectJ?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
>
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