Re: Purify patent (was Re: gawk memory leak)

> This surprises me, as Digital has a toolkit out there called ATOM
> (the OM standing for "Object Modification") and it ships a client,
> who's name escapes me at the moment, that has similar features as
> Purify. Anyone know the scoop on this?


The name of the client is Third Degree. Since patents and licensing
are legal issues, I would be real surprised if anyone "in the know"
commented on them in a public forum like this. It's just one of the
facets of an adversarial justice system and takes us on a path far
from comp.compilers. I look at the third degree code every day, as
part of one of my contracts, but I am not paid to make comments on
(either for or against) whether it violates any patents, and in fact,
I would be surprised if there weren't a contract clause keeping me
from volunteering such comments.


More importantly, I think there are a lot of "interesting" things in
third degree (some potentially relevant to comp.compilers) and most of
them are only tangentially (at best) related to the details of object
modification.


-Chris Clark
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