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Why the Oracle Java Patents Were Literally A Joke Played by Sun Engineers
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grellas
on Aug 17, 2010
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tzs
on Aug 17, 2010
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The article's reasoning seems to be that because Gosling said that some Sun engineers tried to see who could get the silliest patent,
ALL
Sun patents filed by those engineers were silly.
patrickaljord
on Aug 17, 2010
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All software patents are silly anyway.
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