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Hello dsimcha,

> == Quote from Brad Roberts (braddr at slice-2.puremagic.com)'s article
> 
>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> 
>>> Seems a weak reason. A programmer that's worried about infringing
>>> software patents can't write anything more useful than "Hello
>>> World". I'm seriously not convinced at all that it's even possible
>>> to write useful code that doesn't technically infringe on some
>>> software patent. As a programmer, either you accept the fact that
>>> what you do is inevitably going to trample software patents, or you
>>> just simply don't be a programmer. That's all there is.
>>> 
>> The world's not nearly that black and white.  There's a huge
>> difference in
>> infringment in an app you write for yourself vs an app that's very
>> public.
>> LLVM is somewhat closer to the latter end of the spectrum.
>> I agree that excess paranoia isn't warranted, but neither is willful
>> ignorance.
> If we're really lucky, Bilski Vs. Kappos
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski) will send all the software
> patent attorneys to the poorhouse next week and we can just start
> trampling freely.

OTOH, based on the wiki, the court seems to support a "Machine-or-transformation 
test" and what is a compiler if not a transformation tool?

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