It is certain that DMIS' biggest obstacle came from a U.S. patent issued in 1993 to a now-defunct CMM manufacturer for "using a communication protocol as a programming language." At that time, DMIS was being used only as a communication protocol, and the patent stopped the development of DMIS as a programming language overnight. However, the dual usage became public domain in 1995, and DMIS has been gathering momentum ever since.
I was on the C.E. Johansson R&D team at that time, we were knee deep in our own development of a software with DMIS as the programming language, when this ridiculous US patent turns up, forcing us to drop that and go in another direction...
It is certain that DMIS' biggest obstacle came from a U.S. patent issued in 1993 to a now-defunct CMM manufacturer for "using a communication protocol as a programming language." At that time, DMIS was being used only as a communication protocol, and the patent stopped the development of DMIS as a programming language overnight. However, the dual usage became public domain in 1995, and DMIS has been gathering momentum ever since.
I was on the C.E. Johansson R&D team at that time, we were knee deep in our own development of a software with DMIS as the programming language, when this ridiculous US patent turns up, forcing us to drop that and go in another direction...
just like the guy who tried to patent 21st century fox title.
