Why not? What is the legal reason to forbid people who are not involved in the patent, using only publicly available info (rumour), from discussing (specific) patents on a public forum?
On Jul 14, 12:42 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: > -Do you have a quote for this? (if yes, please send it to me in private). > > -Please don't discuss specific patents on this list (or any other > official Android list). Thanks. > > JBQ > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Anton Melser<[email protected]> wrote: > > > I seem to remember Google announcing they wouldn't develop multi-touch > > capabilities as Apple have patents on "the technology". Sure, it > > existed many years before Apple "invented" it, but that has never > > stopped large corps from threatening to sue for patents acquired > > illegally. I'd forget about it. > > Cheers > > Anton > > > 2009/7/14 MotoVB <[email protected]>: > > >> Dear all: > >> We are developing the multitouch framework for android system. Our > >> assumption is not to modify the android framework as far as possible. > >> So we will modify the multitouch driver and provide a > >> MultitouchAdapter.java to let the user program can listen some events, > >> like Zoom and Rotate! And the user program also can receive the > >> multitouch pointers to recogine the other gestures. > > >> The other work is to let the existing applicatons can support > >> multitouch gesture, like zoom event, without compling again. The > >> approach is to translate the Pointer Event to the Keyboard Event at > >> the driver layer because the user level program can't inject the > >> KeyEvent to other application due to security. For example, in the > >> synaptics driver, when detecting the zoom gesture, it will send the > >> KeyEvent to the keyboard device driver (/dev/input/event1). After the > >> browser receive the Menu+I Key combination, it will zoom in. > > >> Could anybody give us some suggestion? If our work is complete, > >> anyone needs it? > >> We are afraid that the android team do the same thing now. Does > >> anyone know whether the official android team add the multitouch > >> support to android framework? > > > -- > > echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc > > This will help you for 99.9% of your problems ... > > -- > Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru > Android Engineer, Google. > > Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private > will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further > warning.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
