{"id":578,"date":"2004-06-08T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T01:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=578"},"modified":"2004-06-08T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T01:13:33","slug":"microsoft-patents-the-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft patents the to-do list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>M<\/span>icrosoft patents the <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;d=PALL&#038;p=1&#038;u=\/netahtml\/srchnum.htm&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;s1=6,748,582.WKU.&#038;OS=PN\/6,748,582&#038;RS=PN\/6,748,582\">&#8216;to-do&#8217; list<\/a>. Well, not completely, but it looks awfully close to something we see in modern programming <em>IDEs<\/em>. Borland&#8217;s range of IDEs from C++ to Delphi for example.\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for assisting a software developer in managing tasks to be completed by providing a task list as a unified location for developers to locate errors and warnings in code, as well as specify user-defined tasks.\n<\/p>\n<p>It rather surprises me to see the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;d=PALL&#038;p=1&#038;u=\/netahtml\/srchnum.htm&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;s1=6,748,582.WKU.&#038;OS=PN\/6,748,582&#038;RS=PN\/6,748,582\">Anders Hejlsberg<\/a> mentioned as one of the inventors of this &#8216;important and mindbreaking piece of technology&#8217;. You know <em>the<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anders_Hejlsberg\">Anders Hejlsberg<\/a>. I always wondered what his position was on software patents. Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&#038;r=0&#038;p=1&#038;f=S&#038;l=50&#038;Query=Hejlsberg+AND+Anders&#038;d=ptxt\">have<\/a>. I smell a <a href=\"http:\/\/delphi.about.com\/library\/weekly\/aa112902b.htm\">conspiracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft patents the &#8216;to-do&#8217; list. Well, not completely, but it looks awfully close to something we see in modern programming IDEs. Borland&#8217;s range of IDEs from C++ to Delphi for example. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for assisting a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=578\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}