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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-devel]  3 D Desktop
From:       "Gerhard W. Gruber" <sparhawk () gmx ! at>
Date:       2003-12-10 21:28:03
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:35:26 +0100, Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz@kde.org> wrote:

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

I do.

>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.

At least the idea of a 3D Desktop is not that new. I once had a 3D Desktop for
Windows, which is even freeware I think, which really worked. I think you
could use a theme i.E. like a Doom dungeon and you could place your icons
anywhere in the room. Then you could move through the desktop like with a
Shooter. Therfore I'm pretty sure that, at least a 3D Desktop is not
patentable unless that patent is rather old.

>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.

Well. I will keep your post and show it aorund in discussions around here,
because there are still people who think softwarepatents a good idea. Your
mail alone already shows that this is not the case and only blocks
development.

-- 
Gerhard Gruber
Maintainer of
SoftICE for Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pice
Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu
 
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