Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread steve harley
On 2010-01-15 00:35 , P. J. Alling wrote: Well they more or less stole the idea for the Lisa OS from Xerox, then sued Microsoft for having the temerity to steal the same idea for the first version of Windows. breaking news, that! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread paul stenquist
On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:35 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 1/14/2010 11:43 PM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Bruce Walker Subject: OT - Kodak's survival plan? The headline is Kodak is suing Apple and RIM for patent infringement. When I read about the nature of the

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/15/2010 4:35 AM, steve harley wrote: On 2010-01-15 00:35 , P. J. Alling wrote: Well they more or less stole the idea for the Lisa OS from Xerox, then sued Microsoft for having the temerity to steal the same idea for the first version of Windows. breaking news, that! Windows 1.x was

RE: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread Bob W
The Xerox OS, (I don't remember it's name), Star. was very slick, supposedly worked wonderfully, and if anyone should have filed suit, it should have been Xerox. They did. After Apple went for Microsoft, Xerox went for Apple. I think they settled out of court. There's a timeline of

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling On 1/14/2010 11:43 PM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Bruce Walker Subject: OT - Kodak's survival plan? The headline is Kodak is suing Apple and RIM for patent infringement. When I read about the nature of the patents involved ... Kodak

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling Windows 1.x was on the surface very Lisa/Mac like, with overlapping windows etc. Apple unsheathed their lawyers and Microsoft's next effort had much changed interface, the overlapping windows were gone, I don't remember what else changed, who after remembers much about

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread steve harley
On 2010-01-15 07:59 , P. J. Alling wrote: On 1/15/2010 4:35 AM, steve harley wrote: On 2010-01-15 00:35 , P. J. Alling wrote: Well they more or less stole the idea for the Lisa OS from Xerox, then sued Microsoft for having the temerity to steal the same idea for the first version of Windows.

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-15 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/15/2010 1:30 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: P. J. Alling Windows 1.x was on the surface very Lisa/Mac like, with overlapping windows etc. Apple unsheathed their lawyers and Microsoft's next effort had much changed interface, the overlapping windows were gone, I don't remember what else

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-14 Thread P. J. Alling
Sometimes these claims are valid. I don't know about this one. On 1/14/2010 12:23 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: The headline is Kodak is suing Apple and RIM for patent infringement. When I read about the nature of the patents involved ... Kodak alleges that Apple is infringing on two patents

RE: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-14 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker The headline is Kodak is suing Apple and RIM for patent infringement. When I read about the nature of the patents involved ... Kodak alleges that Apple is infringing on two patents covering image preview and the processing of images of different resolutions. The second

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-14 Thread Tom C
It sounds to me that IF, as Kodak claims, other companies have licensed or pay royalties for the exact same technology, then the claims may indeed be valid. I really enjoyed reading the Talkback headers below the story... :-) Tom On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Bruce Walker

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-14 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Bruce Walker Subject: OT - Kodak's survival plan? The headline is Kodak is suing Apple and RIM for patent infringement. When I read about the nature of the patents involved ... Kodak alleges that Apple is infringing on two patents covering image preview

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-14 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/14/10, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if the Apple fanboys will slit their wrists if Kodak wins. I mean really, Apple doing more or less exactly what they hate about Gates Co. How much whiskey have you had tonight, Bill? -- Scott Loveless

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-14 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Scott Loveless Subject: Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan? How much whiskey have you had tonight, Bill? Not enough apparently. Actually, I just got home from work an hour ago and all I've had was one little glass of wine. The tail end of a bottle of Wolf

Re: OT - Kodak's survival plan?

2010-01-14 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/14/2010 11:43 PM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Bruce Walker Subject: OT - Kodak's survival plan? The headline is Kodak is suing Apple and RIM for patent infringement. When I read about the nature of the patents involved ... Kodak alleges that Apple is