Re: Discuss Bill Gates statement

From: Alessandro Selli (spammami_at_libero.it)
Date: 02/27/04

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    Nel fausto dė di Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:30:11 +0000, il prode _Tim Haynes_
    presente alla corte di _comp.os.linux.security_
    cosė ebbe l'ardire di pronunziarsi:

    [...]

    | Hahahaha. Prior art. End of problem.
    |
    |> Now, I'm pretty sure Linux and BSDs' window managers and desktops have
    |> had "virtual desktop managers" for a loong time, much earlier than April
    |> 5, 2002. Can you really ignore them?
    |
    | I can certainly happily ignore m$loth.

      Well, I've beeing ignoring them for quite some time, but:
    suppose one puts up a startup software house that has a considerable success
    selling software/services built around something that has to do with what
    vaguely resembles a "virtual desktop manager". Then, some day, he gets a
    letter from some m$ attorney claiming that ... blah blah blah and he's taken
    to the court.
    This alone could jeopardize the poor guy's bussiness, to the point he either
    goes bankrupt (even would he win the trial several years later and be
    compensated, his software and services would be obsolete by then) or accepts
    to sell his stuff to the Redmond Behemoth.
    Would the guy not be already concerned about this (and several more equally
    stupid) patent?

      Sandro 

    -- 
"In a world without walls and fences
you would not need windows and gates."
(Confucius)
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