Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Fri Oct 12 18:12:47 EDT 2007


Thomas Charron wrote:
>   So, now that http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141
> is out there..
>
>   What are peoples thoughts on the patent in question?
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=5072412.PN.&OS=PN/5072412&RS=PN/5072412
>   
I think there's prior art. I seem to remember seeing something like this
back in the days of X10 (the predecessor to X11). A little white box
with crosshairs in the lower right of the screen. It screwed up my
display whenever I clicked on it. Back then I didn't know about window
managers, let alone workspaces - I just knew about point and click. I
think they used the term "panel" (in what passed as documentation in
those days).


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