On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:42:40 +0200, Tim wrote in message <CAPK_1fyqmUGgLrEO8KEUPGNvUHb5Frcr=ypieemg7m_oyjn...@mail.gmail.com>:
> http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2048240/patent-troll-sues-x-plane > > It turns out that the patent has nothing to do with flight simulation > but with remote license checking, but still. The Slashdot article has > the line ""X-plane is a cross-platform flight simulator app, notably > the only serious one that supports Mac OSX and Linux." In the comments > the "serious" part refers to X-Plane being "FAA certified." Now, I > know that software isn't FAA certified -- complete systems --are and > that FlightGear has been used in commercial simulators too, but > someone (Curt?) with the real details might want to chime in with a > correction. ..looks like Austin's big sin was make X-plane an Android app. Who are the other 8 app developers? ..he should have dual-licensed X-Plane, _much_ easier to find pro bono lawyer etc help with the GPL. Oh well. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
