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Posted by: John Rutter (Tuesday 29 June 2004, 9:13 AM)
And when did they register this ground-breaking and innovative idea?
It is far from original thought, automation or not!
The freely-available Eclipse IDE already includes automatic generation of task lists with entries corresponding to the appearance of TODO comments in code.
Isn't that just about what this patent appears to do?
USPTO are actually the biggest culprit here, Microsoft are just trying to take advantage of this totally ineffective organisation, at the expense of other software developers or would-be developers.
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