The New Cult of Dead Cow

Urgando en la basura me entero que ningun sistema operativo es Legal, que todos nosotros somos delicuentes, y que en las universidades nos enseñan a delinquir.

Y es que desde el 2002, esta registrada la patente sobre las listas enlazadas en la Oficina de Patentes de los Estados Unidos.

Una muestra mas de lo dañino que son este tipo de mecanismos de control sobre las ideas.

Bueno ahora ya lo saben, busquen otras formas de programar.

Y aca les dejo otras patentes relacionadas:

• US Patent 5,263,160 (November 16, 1993) - «Augmented doubly-linked list search and management method for a system having data stored in a list of data elements in memory». Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA).
• US Patent 5,446,889 (August 29, 1995) - «Computer-based methods for determining the head of a linked list.» Assignee: Unisys Corporation (Blue Bell, PA).
• US Patent 5,671,406 (September 23, 1997) - «Data structure enhancements for in-place sorting of a singly linked list.» Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA).
• US Patent 5,950,191 (September 7, 1999) - «Method and system for accessing an item in a linked list using an auxiliary array.» Assignee: Oracle Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA).
• US Patent 6,301,646 (October 9, 2001) - «Pointer verification system and method:
  A system and method for allocating memory blocks and indexing the
  pointer to the memory blocks in a set of tables. The tables translate
  the pointers to the memory blocks enabling the efficient lookup of
  pointers during translation and garbage collection. The memory blocks
  further include structures for facilitating the indexing into tables
  and referencing pointers into allocated memory.» Assignee: Curl Corporation (Cambridge, MA).
• US Patent 6,581,063 (June 17, 2003) - «Method and apparatus for maintaining a linked list:
  …Preferably, the linked list is doubly-linked, and list maintenance
  is accomplished using object-oriented programming techniques. …An
  inspector object traverses the list without changing it; while a
  mutator alters the list, and may traverse it as well. Both inspectors
  and mutators have associated view objects, which contain the pointers
  to the actual list elements. Mutators also have associated blocker
  objects, which block access to selected list elements. (etc.)» Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY).
• US Patent 6,687,699 (February 3, 2004) - «System and method for tracking computer data: One
  preferred embodiment is a system for tracking computer data, including
  at least one data set, at least one node table for each data set, at
  least one node entry for each node table, each node entry having a
  linked list identification, a previous pointer, and a next pointer, and
  at least one linked list referencing the at least one node entry.» Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, TX).
• US Patent 6,760,726 (July 6, 2004) - «System and method of managing concurrent operations on linked lists.» Assignee: ANTs Software (Burlingame, CA).

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