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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 3D pie widget
From:       Amaury JACQUOT <sxpert () multimania ! com>
Date:       1999-09-26 19:37:17
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Thorsten Westheider wrote:
> 
> Amaury JACQUOT wrote:
> >
> > warning, some stupid company has patented this kind of stuff... (check
> > comments on
> > slashdot)
> >
check that one...

http://www.patents.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05844572__

> > Thorsten Westheider wrote:
> > >
> > > David Sweet wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I haven't seen one.  If you'd like to create one, please consider
> > > > doing it as part of KPlotW, a 2D plotting widget.  All you'd need to do is
> > > > subclass from KPS2D following the example of KPS2DMap or KPS2DParametric.
> > > > Let me know if you have any questions.
> > >
> > > I already created one. Saw some code in KDiskFree and
> > > pushed it a bit ;-)
> 
> Uhhh...seriously? This patent issue starts to drive me nuts :-(
> Somebody holding patents on push buttons already? :-P
> 
>         cu
>           Thorsten
> 
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