Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- Subject: Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:42:43 -0700
Good question. Take it up with the patent office.
-jcr
On Sunday, June 10, 2001, at 07:24 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Hmm, how can Apple have a patent for that, when it was already present
in
Smalltalk 80, perhaps even Smalltalk 78, years before the very first
Mac?
Juan
-- Original Message --
On Sunday, June 10, 2001, at 12:02 PM, Stefan Arentz wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:30:35AM -0700, John C. Randolph wrote:
On Sunday, June 10, 2001, at 11:09 AM, Stefan Arentz wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:06:21AM -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen
wrote:
However, Apple's patents prevent a full re-implementation of EOF at
this time.
Which patents? Do you happen to know the numbers or title?
As I recall, Apple has a patent on key-value coding.
Uh. What's is that?
The ability to address the ivars of an object as if the object were a
dictionary.
-jcr
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