[REBOL] REBOL may be in violation of MS patent...
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 19-Nov-2004 13:16
....filed May 14, 2003. No, I'm not kidding. Something is SERIOUSLY
BROKEN in Washington!
Go to the USPTO website search page at
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html
and enter the patent number 20040230959 for the description (excerpted
below.)
Patent# 20040230959
IS NOT OPERATOR
Abstract
A system, method and computer-readable medium support the
use of a single operator that allows a comparison of two
variables to determine if the two variables point to the
same location in memory.
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