From kde-core-devel  Sat Jul 03 12:23:34 2004
From: Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:23:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Taskbar grouping patented by MS - Mentions kde-look ml as
Message-Id: <200407031423.34831.wheeler () kde ! org>
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On Saturday 03 July 2004 13:47, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Saturday 03 July 2004 02:10, Pupeno wrote:
> 
> > So, what happens now ?
> 
> Ignore them and hope that Microsoft uses them only to protect itself
> but never to attack others.

Exactly.  As pretty much none of us are patent lawyers and most of the time 
these discussions happen after people read a Slashdot post rather than the 
patent itself I'd like to see this kept off of kde-core-devel.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.1/0768.html

We could employ a team of 20 people to constantly search the US patent 
archives to determine which patents we may be infringing upon and ways around 
it...or we could just keep writing software.

However that's a policy issue, so I think this would be better suited for 
kde-policies.

-Scott