>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brant Fitzsimmons >Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 2:18 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake & patents > > >Marc wrote: > >>On Tuesday 26 August 2003 10:26 am, Anarky wrote: >> >> >>> I got these links from a friend today: >>> >>>Online Demonstration Against Software Patents: >>>http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html >>>Software Patents: who pays and who plays? >>>http://jonagold.elis.ugent.be:8080/~jonas/why.html >>> >>>http://www.ffii.org/ffii-cgi/eintrag?f=eubsa&l=en >>>http://www.noepatents.org/index.html >>> >>> >>> I don't understand much of the legal stuff .. but from the stuff I >>>read there everything & everybody might get in trouble ... I mean would >>>that mean that say MS could say that Mandrake can't have a 'Control >>>Center' because it's based on their 'Control Panel' idea ... or point & >>>click solutions? I'm scared! I want to get into game making ... and if >>>things are this scary than only big companies with big legal >support can >>>make it. >>> >>> greets, >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I dont understand much of the legel crap myself but it seems >to me that >>Lindows went through this crap with MS about a year ago and lindows won. >> Aside from that I would tend to think that if it came down to >that Mandrake >>would just rename control center to system adjustment utility or >something >>like that. I must however aggree that the whole thing could be a >senseless >>PITA consumeing time energy and money over something pureley >ignorant while >>the lawyers get rich. >> Some of this stuff could be a last ditch scramble to turn the >tide of change >>on the part of companys like MS. >> It may be a sighn that MS is more than a little worried!! >> This may relate. About 2-3 years ago while looking for a >linux compatible >>modem I went to the modem section of ebay and did a search under >titles and >>discriptions under Linux and and only came up with 3 or 4 search >results I >>did the same thing a few days ago and came up with 167 search results. >> Could this be a sort of crude indicater that 42-55 times more >people are >>eather useing linux or at least aware of linux than 3 tears ago? >> That would be enough to make me worry a hell of a lot if I had >a financhal >>intrest in MS. >> Ms and SCO may be pulling this sort of patent and copywrite >crap because >>they know that their days are numbered. They may tryany any >means at their >>disposal to stop the growth of LINUX and if this is the best >that they can do >>we dont have a lot to worry about, LOL. >> >> Marc >> KM5KW >> > >Renaming the "Control Center" anything else would still be in violation >of a patent on the concept of a control center (a central location to >control configuration of the OS). If the concept is patented -- >renaming something that does the same thing won't save you. > >It's the dumbest fscking thing I've heard in a while, and I've been on >the OT list. ;-)
FRANKI: LOL, good one.. totally in agreeance.. but microsoft can't prove they had the central config idea first, cos they didn't.. my old commodore and a UI called Geoworks, and it had a central configuration app.. and I don't believe for a minute they were the first one. (oddly enough, I had a massive sense of dea ja vous (scuse spelling) when I first saw windows it looked very similiar to geoworks and similar to DRDOS's GUI also. rgds Franki htmlfixit.com
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