From kde-devel  Mon Sep 27 13:49:54 1999
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:49:54 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: 3D pie widget
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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Amaury JACQUOT wrote:
> 
> > 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__
> 
> I gave a course on the Origin software package in 1996, and it already had
> that functionality, a year before the patent was filed.

But not before this one was, I'm afraid:

http://www.patents.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05619631__

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