Posted by: David Wright (Thursday 3 March 2005, 9:13 AM)
Surely shared library concepts such as Windows DLL's have been around for decades, if the patent covers such concepts of accessing external libraries, then the patent certainly has prior art?
I know that ever since I started programming in the early 80's, external, shared libraries were a concept we always used.
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