[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/28/2014 1:04 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:27:19PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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>> Yeah, and the form rejects all attempts to disclose prior art without
>> a patent number.
>>
>> Reminds me of obamacare.gov :-)
>
> 	Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by
> 	incompetence. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
>
> ;-)
>
>
> (P.S. Yes, I know the quote has probably been misattributed to Napoleon,
> but I forgot who the real author is/was since I failed to update my sigs
> file last time.)
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

One of my personal favorite quotes.