From kde-devel  Tue Dec 09 18:41:44 2003
From: Frans Englich <frans.englich () telia ! com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:41:44 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [kde-devel]  3 D Desktop
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On Tuesday 09 December 2003 19:18, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:31:56 +0100, Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz@kde.org> wrote:
> >If we *know* that they did not patent a feature I have no problem
> >with seeing it implemented
> >
> >In case we find out that they have patented these (and I bet they
> >did!) we should be absolutely sure to be able to successfully fight
> >the patents.
>
> IN Europe you can fight it for sure. Yet. There are no such things as
> softwarepatents and hopefully never will be.

That is correct. AFAIK it is only possible to patent algoritms of 
"mathematical art" which something as broad as "3d desktop" can't be relevant 
to. Besides, Sun is not the first one with the idea of a 3D desktop. Search 
slashdot.

			Frans

 
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