Wait, you can patent an operation? Is it not considered an API? I assumed the Java case would meant you couldn't. I would think it would be limited to the hardware implementation, or maybe some specifics of the alg.
They said that, but my understanding was that they were really trying to scare apple back on to x86-64. It didn't work, and it was pretty specious anyway.
trenchpilgrim|4 months ago
Presumably Apple and Mocrosoft both have counter-leverage of requiring app developers to ship native binaries at some point in the future.
nomel|4 months ago
monocasa|4 months ago