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girtby.net is a personal blog at girtby.net about programming and writing. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
A personal blog post, linked on the Apple v. Lodsys thread to explain how patent timing and public disclosure work. It is cited as a source on a 2005 Microsoft patent related to the iPod.
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What Hacker News says?
I think the media didn't understand this based on that article. See: http://girtby.net/archives/2005/08/17/microsoft-patents-ipod... Apple couldn't file for a patent after it released the iPod. You have to do it before public disclosure. And of course MS couldn't have gotten the patent if Apple had released the iPod. To bring in the Groklaw quote mentioned: "The rejected Apple application is not exactly a critical o…
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on “Full text: Apple Legal's letter to Lodsys”Submitted In Defense of C as a story · 22 points
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