From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 7 14:05:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22396 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22369 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA26297; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:04:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981007150153.0403d560@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:02:49 -0600 To: Mike Smith From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) Cc: Mike Smith , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810072059.NAA02414@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:59 PM 10/7/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> > Interpreters are specifically excluded (they don't produce object >> > code). It's arguable whether a JIT bytecoder intrudes on enough of >> > this to be covered. > >"bytecode" is a generic term for just that, as is P-code, etc. Most >popular interpreters these days (Perl, Tcl, Java, etc.) are either JIT- >or pre-bytecoders. As I said, it's arguable as to whether this is >covered or not. Microsoft's only product that does this is VB, which is what the patent was intended to cover. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message