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

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 10:01:17 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.

If something is incredibly stupid, it's often by design. (It's 
usually 50+ year later that people find out)