Hi FOSS Coleagues, Here's some more MS monkey business to start out the new year: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/190801_openoffice15.html Shanah Tovah,
- yba On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Ez-Aton wrote: > > > ik wrote: > > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:36:36PM +0300, Adir Abraham wrote: > >> > >>> The name of the patent - "Discoverability and navigation of > >>> hyperlinks via > >>> tabs" > >>> > >>> Suggested patents: pressing an X box to close a window, pressing the > >>> enter > >>> key to start a new line, and even - pressing ctrl-alt-del to manually > >>> restart (if possible) after a BSOD :) > >>> > >>> The article about this is found here: > >>> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2978322,00.html > >>> > >>> The full document of the patent is found here: > >>> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,785,865.WKU.&OS=PN/6,785,865&RS=PN/6,785,865 > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> It appears that lynx is not a prior art to this patent, do to claim 3: > >> > >> 3. The method of claim 2 wherein, the visual indication is a curved > >> focus shape. > >> This patent is thus exteremly easy to bypass. Thus I suspect that this > >> claim and claim 6(e) were added to bypass existing prior art. > >> > > I wonder, if someone made a work with TAB (or any other "patent") > > before Microsoft was ever existed, does it imply to this work as well ? > > > > > > Ido > > Yes, unless he can prove it in the court of law. > > Ez. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
