Re: From JavaLobby News

Tor,

I believe that for people outside the US this does not change anything (yet - 
the discussion about software patents is just happening in EU parliament).

So hosting the task list module outside US could help at least for those not 
living over there ;-(

Best,

David

PS.: I have sent the very same news to the nbdev ...

Tor Norbye wrote:
> I just saw this in the latest newsletter from the javalobby:
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> *Microsoft Patents TODO in Software
> *This evening after my new routine at the gym, I noticed on News.com 
> that Microsoft had been granted another patent. This one apparently 
> covers leaving TODO comments in your source code and having them checked 
> off a checklist. From News.com, “ The patented technology essentially 
> integrates certain comments left in the source code of an application 
> under development with an accompanying checklist. Leave a "TODO" comment 
> in the source code, and an authoring application automatically creates 
> an item in the task list. Check an item off on the task list, and the 
> corresponding source code comment is changed.”
> 
> This seems like an interesting patent, and while I haven’t read over the 
> filing, it seems like the TODO features in IDEA, Eclipse, and other IDEs 
> may come close if not actually fall under this patent. If Microsoft 
> decided to enforce this one, would all our favorite IDEs be forced to 
> pay royalty fees or remove these features? I use the TODO feature in 
> IDEA all the time and find it invaluable; it’d be a shame to lose it.