Can we all just agree that patents are idiotic, braindamaged and evil[1], and stop this pointless discussion? thanks.
uriel [1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/quotes_on_patents On 10/12/07, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:11:28PM +0200, Denis Grelich wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:14:05 +0200 > > "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:04:55PM +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote: > > > > This is a hot news [1]. Do you think that our darling wmii > > > > can violate that patent (User Interface with Multiple > > > > Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects)? ;) > > > > > > There are no workspaces in wmii or dwm. So the patent is not > > > relevant to wmii or dwm. There is only a single workspace (we > > > call it view). > > > > They talk about the internal representation where the position and > > gemotry of the windows is saved "per workspace." > > Well and that's not the case with dwm/wmii. In dwm no geometry > is presaved at all per tag. In wmii a client can appear in all > tags, so there are no workspaces. Only limited use of the > dwm/wmii concepts might violate the patent, but that's a problem > of the user. > > Regards, > -- > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361 > >
