A lot of people are concerned about U.S. Patent law in
that it is too easy to "own" an idea these days so basically,
everybody becomes a thief at some time or other. Hopefully, the
pendulum will swing back in the other direction one of these
days. Did you know, for example, that Kodak holds a patent on
gravity?
Yes, they do. The Kodak Carousel slide projector has a
round container that looks kind of like a bunt cake pan which
holds 80 or sometimes 130 35-MM slides. This holder sits on the
top of the projector and the mechanism allows a slide to fall by
force of gravity through an open slot in the holder or tray down
in to the gate where the bright light shines through it and it
is projected on the screen. If anybody else uses gravity, they
have to pay Kodak.
You do sometimes see projectors that move the slides
horizontally as nobody has patented horizontal motion yet.
Martin
Travis Siegel writes:
> I would just like to point out (for the record) that everyone seems to use
> the capslock these days as a modifier for the screen reader. That in and
> of
> itself isn't a major deal. However, it seems that freedom scientific has
> been jumping on everyone it can lately for the slightest encursion into
> what it considers to be it's territory, including anything with the word
> freedom in it's name. This isn't new, but it does beg the question, what
> would they do if I decided to slap a suit on them for stealing the
> capslock
> idea from windowbridge, the first windows screen reader, to which I now
> own
> the rights. Of course, I'd probably not bother with such nonsense, but it
> is an interesting intellectual exercise.
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