On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:43:18 +0100 Danilo Alfaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:
> hello first a want to ask for a apologize because this list its not for
> this but i want to send this link because this news its sometine
> terrible if is true
>
> http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1077781268.html
>
> well sorry about this email but you are the enligthenment developer and
> you are who are behind enligthenment and this thing that ms want to do
> is not right get a patent of a desktop that is a copy of enlight >:-(
>
> well bye
>
> thanks..! for that great part of software
no problems. well - don't worry about this - ms may apply for the patent - hell
they may be granted it - but prior art can be proven easily. but more
specifically they apply for SPECIAL uses like having the miniature of the
desktop zoom up to the full screen. sure - e doesn't and didn't do this - but
it's an obvious extension and thus doesn't count as being patentable. if it came
to court this wouldn't be hard to prove - e16 was zooming windows as u moused
over their miniatures in the pager long ago. if anyone gets sues or stomped on
by anyone - microsoft included, for violating patents that E has clearly prior
art for or are a simple "obvious extension" to such stuff i am always available
and willing to help anyone. this offer stands regardless. even if MS was being
sued by someone else claiming patent infringement on something pioneered by E
beforehand i'd offer to help MS out - just out of principle that i disagree with
the frivolous patent malarkey that abounds today. it stifles innovation and is
just a way for lawyers to get rich. the only people who win are lawyers in the
end. (sorry legal folks out there - but it's pretty much the truth). if patents
were granted as they truly should be on amazingly non-obvious and innovative
ideas, i might change my mind - but these patents are needles in the haystack.
> PD.
> Excuse my ortograpichs horrors i dont speak english very well : p
that's ok - neither do i! :) hehehehe
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