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“Just a short comment on the patent issue: I don’t think we need to be worried about Microsoft possibly taking out a patent on this interaction style. “I echo the fears expressed by others that, lacking patent or copyright protection, you may find yourself overwhelmed by lawsuits from Microsoft, who seem completely willing to patent other people’s inventions and steal them away.” (T N Fields)Īt the time, my response was (naïvely?) dismissive: What should concern you is what if Microsoft patents this “innovation”, where would that leave you and the wonderful BlueJ project? Food for thought.” (DH Allingham) “If they have or haven’t is no longer an issue. Many remarked about a possible patent attempt by Microsoft: In the days following that article, several people commented on the case (documented at the bottom of the original article). My purpose at the time was just to get this statement out into the public domain, and that was that. So I decided to post these screenshots here so that people can at least see and make up there own minds.” Microsoft does not have a good track record on this. I work at a university, and I strongly believe in honest attribution of sources. “Do I care? I don’t care that they copied BlueJ – good on them, and good luck to them. In short: I didn’t really mind that Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) copied our ideas, but I was a bit peeved that they claimed it as a new innovation of theirs and proudly presented this “newly developed” feature without attribution. (I won’t repeat the points of the article here – if you want to see whether you agree with us, read the article.) At the time, I wrote a short article on the BlueJ web site about this. This smelled as much like a straight BlueJ copy to us as old cheese smells like – well, old cheese. In his blog post, Mr Fernandez talked about a new Visual Studio feature, the Object Test Bench. In May 2005, somebody pointed me towards a blog of Dan Fernandez, at the time “Visual C# Product Manager” at Microsoft (now “Lead Product Manager – Visual Studio Express”). For us, the interesting story started in May 2005, when we came across the BlueJ feature copies in Visual Studio. So far, this is all the usual competing-for-marketshare game, and there is nothing really exciting about this.

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Visual Studio then locks students into developing for the Windows platform, mostly in Visual Basic or C# (though other languages are possible).

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Their strongest push comes in form of the “ MSDN Academic Alliance“, an initiative to get their Visual Studio environment adopted in schools by offering it free (or very cheaply) and offering free training to teachers. Microsoft have struggled to counter this (with C# having entered the market considerably later than Java, and offering no compelling features that enticed departments to switch to it from Java). Java as a teaching language at schools and universities has been immensly successful, and BlueJ plays a part in this, with many hundreds of institutions adopting it as their teaching platform. This means that tomorrows developers might grow up working in an ecosystem where they are not locked into the Windows platform, and consequently have the choice to consider alternatives. What’s worse (from the point of view of the Seattle giant): BlueJ is cross platform, and uses Sun’s Java Programming Language. Not ‘compete’ in a commercial sense from our point of view, since we do not run a business, and do not make money from the distribution of BlueJ, but ‘compete’ in a business sense for Microsoft, since BlueJ adoption can theoretically mean lost sales for Redmond.

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BlueJ is an academic project, started in 1998, and the software is, and always has been, free.īlueJ competes with Microsoft’s Visual Studio in the education market. It is being developed at the University of Kent and Deakin University with support from Sun Microsystems. Sad fact is that this could destroy BlueJ.īlueJ is an educational IDE for teaching object-oriented programming and Java to beginners.

Why? To sue us out of the market? To make us pay? Who knows. After blatantly copying BlueJ (without reference or attribution), Microsoft have now filed for patent for the functionality they knowingly copied from us. It really should have said: Microsoft applies for patent for core BlueJ functionality.Īnd that’s really true. This is my attempt at catchy headline writing. You know what it’s like with writing headlines: Short and catchy.