The subject comes from this lovely item that showed up on slashdot about MS trying to patent the IsNot operator within the context of the BASIC language (or a derivative):
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO% 2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959% 22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 What next? lol
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