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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    MS now owns double-clicking
From:       rbe <rbe () flash ! net>
Date:       2004-06-05 13:15:00
Message-ID: c9sh0l$c19$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Microsoft was successful in their attempt to obtain a US patent for any 
mouse-click other than a single click.  Thus, double-clicks, long 
clicks and anything else you can think of relating to clicking on a 
mouse is subject to a patent by MS.

I wonder if the US Patent Office has gone insane.  The double-click 
existed in GUI's used long before MS came out with Windows in both PC 
applications and on (if I remember correctly), Macs.  I note that the 
EU Patent process will now apply to software (if it passes) and subject 
EU member states to the same kind of idiocy evidenced so often by the 
US Patent Office.  You can read about it here:

http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=1665

-- 
Robert Black Eagle


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