From kde-core-devel  Sat Jul 03 15:18:33 2004
From: Shift <shift () free ! fr>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:18:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Taskbar grouping patented by MS - Mentions kde-look ml as
Message-Id: <200407031718.40981.shift () free ! fr>
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Le vendredi 2 Juillet 2004 12:10, Torsten Rahn a écrit :
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&
>
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=113191&threshold=2&commentsort=0&tid=15
>5&mode=nested&cid=9589101

Worst !
They patented Multiple Desktop :
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20030189597&OS=20030189597&RS=20030189597

And they used KDE and Gnome taskbars as exemple :
http://aiw2.uspto.gov/.DImg?Docid=us20030189597ki&PageNum=2&IDKey=352C9EF9F651&ImgFormat=tif

Software Patents sux !

Franck

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