Monday, January 29, 2007 1:16 PM EST
Microsoft Patent Application Riles BlueJ Community
Microsoft has apparently withdrawn a patent claim for something known as an Object Test Bench that apparently describes a way for dealing with instantiated objects that has the community that helped develop a similar facility for the Java community in an uproar.
In this post, Michael Kolling describes at great lenght the similarlity between the two approaches and subsequent to this post Microsoft executives from the Visual Studio team posted an item admitting that the patent applications was just one big mistake that shoudl never have happened and that Microsoft was with draing the application.
It would seem the peer review process is alive and well after all.-- Michael Vizard
