Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-16 Thread Daniele Ricci
Cross-posting for broadcasting Justus idea. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 00:00, Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de wrote: I am also tempted to mail the person(s?) behind 8pen addressing my concerns about his attempt to patent the idea, maybe even challenge his position stating that I

Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-16 Thread Alfa21-mobile
I think the concept behind quickwriting is unrelated to the numbers of zones but the way you use them to write. http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/quikwriting/ The basic conceit of Quikwriting is that you make a character by moving your pen first out of, and then back into, a central resting

Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Daniele Ricci wrote: Cross-posting for broadcasting Justus idea. [snip...] On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 00:00, Justus Winter Would anybody care to join me on this one? We could create a message or a message template and ask everyone send this message to the person

Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-16 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
btw, in this page I read also: Then several things happened. Microsoft got interested in it and licensed it from NYU (thereby helping to support our research!) so, I think it's not free :P Not necessarily. There can be dual licensing, like in MySQP, which would allow for a not-for-profit or

Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-16 Thread Daniele Ricci
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:00, community-requ...@lists.openmoko.org wrote: From: Alfa21-mobile freerun...@my.is.it To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:07:51 +0100 Subject: Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting I think the

Re: orrery crashing X

2010-11-16 Thread Treviño
Il giorno lun, 15/11/2010 alle 22.15 +0100, Martin Jansa ha scritto: Xorg crash fixed http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=a02d3d0eefe03576c33294b4201fdbe6bde21cde Cool! Now also midori doesn't crash any more on tab-switch! :)

Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-16 Thread Alfa21-mobile
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Not necessarily.  There can be dual licensing, like in MySQP, which would allow for a not-for-profit or open source licensing. you are right, but they are not saying it's for free neither. I tried to contact that email

MeeGo 1.1 for FreeRunner?

2010-11-16 Thread Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE)
Does anyone know how difficult it would be to port MeeGo to the FreeRunner? After all, we don't have enough distro's yet (-= Cheers, John Gay ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: MeeGo 1.1 for FreeRunner?

2010-11-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) wrote: Does anyone know how difficult it would be to port MeeGo to the FreeRunner? After all, we don't have enough distro's yet (-= http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Porting_Guide All looks rosy until you get to the bit about

Re: MeeGo 1.1 for FreeRunner?

2010-11-16 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/11/16 Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) john@ge.com: Does anyone know how difficult it would be to port MeeGo to the FreeRunner? Well, it would require re-compiling MeeGo for ARMv4. I've been thinking about it, but more likely though I'll take a look at the handset UIs available