I am not a lawyer, but this not the first time that apple unsuccessfully tried to stop others using the "look and feel" of their software. meeting vehement responses from the free software community. In my opinion it is ridiculous to try to prevent others from using an intuitive solution like the dock, at the least it won't be valid outside the USA, so gOS can still be distributed, even if its dock had the exact same "look and feel" of the OSX dock. But Good OS did not even create the current (and previous) docks, they were independently created by other free software groups. Also it is trivial to create a dock that is functionally identical, but does not have the same "look and feel" as the OSX dock. The first gOS had half a dozen effects you could select instead of the "magnifying glass" effect, and without much trouble I "invented" another effect in about ten minutes time that can replace the current effect with the same effectiveness and functionality as the current effect. It is plain stupidity that such "patents" are given out.
On 21 okt, 14:45, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 3:15 am, KevinThinkGos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There will be no effect on us from the sillyMacOSX patents, those > > patents are specifically for how Apple's code manages there dock. We > > use entirely different code and ways for our dock to be managed. > > > FYI, docks precedeMACOSX by several years BTW. > > I did think that but there patent is meant to be specifically how the > dock looks eg the enlarging of the icons as the mouse rolls over etc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" 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/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
