Obviously I am not a lawyer, and haven't looked in depth in those
patents. IIRC they are dealing with ORM, ORM tools, KVC (and what
else?) That would affect at least a few dozens if not more of the
*existing* open and commercial products. So while there is an issue,
I don't think a possible WO port will be in any disadvantage over
those other frameworks.
Besides I don't see this as an anti-Apple project. On the contrary,
getting Apple on board would be awesome, even if this only means
granting the patent rights to a project. This has also been done
before by companies like IBM, etc.
Just need to watch for trademark issues - can't have package names
starting with "com.apple"; can't call the product WebObjects.
Andrus
On Aug 17, 2006, at 8:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The next logical step (maybe I am dreaming) would be to create a
clean room WO framework that is API-compatible with Apple's, reusing
Haven't they got patents on stuff in WO?
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cheers.
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