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Microsoft enforcing its patent portfolio on Open Source? How likely is it that?

Microsoft Watch highlights the recently surfaced HP memo that speculates that Microsoft would start enforcing its patent portfolio on Open Source. How likely is it? It is an interesting question, indeed. Here’s what I think:

The patent situation, especially on the middleware market, used to be very much like the cold war between the USSR and the USA in the last century. One side moves, everyone dies. My...

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Naming and Continuations (continued)

I was a little off when I compared my problem here to a tail call. Gordon Weakliem corrected me with the term "continuation".

The fact that the post got 28 comments shows that this seems to be an interesting problem and, naming aside, it is indeed a tricky thing to implement in a framework when the programming language you use (C# in my case) doesn't support the construct. What's specifically tricky about the concrete case that I have is that I...

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Prankster. Ah. Right.

News is what is made news.

Point in case: This sentence on my blog here: "There's apparently a related project Boa (another serpent name along the family line of Viper that was the original codename for MTS), including the business markup language BML (pronounced "Bimmel") that he's involved in and he talked a bit about that, but of course I'd be killed if I gave out more details." now prompts, directly or indirectly, this here on Microsoft Watch and...

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