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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-devel]  3 D Desktop
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-09 18:35:26
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On Dienstag, 9. Dezember 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.
(...)

I don't care about Europe but about trouble in other countries...

The fact that there *are* SW patents in the USA and Sun is holding
a great number of such there makes me wonder whether they have invented 
their new 3D glasses ideas too: e.g. the way of writing the title of
a page on the small side of the 3D-look page is both smart and worth
a patent - for people who try to get as much of them as possible.

There surely are other small yet nice inventions there which we
might want to have in Konqueror as well - I just wanted to highlight
the fact that it might be unwise to do so without knowing anything
about the patent situation of such features.

It /might/ be that there is no danger, but IMO we should know before.

Karl-Heinz
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