From kde-core-devel  Sun Jul 04 19:43:41 2004
From: Martin Konold <martin.konold () erfrakon ! de>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:43:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Taskbar grouping patented by MS - Mentions kde-look ml as
Message-Id: <200407042143.41352.martin.konold () erfrakon ! de>
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Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 14:23 schrieb Scott Wheeler:

Hi,

> 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

Please avoid direct referencing to SW patents on public KDE mailing lists.

> 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.

This imho not only useless (e.g. progress bar) but harmful (knowingly 
infringing on a patent is worse...)

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

Yes.

Regards,
-- martin

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