[Gllug] More Microsoft patents

[rich at annexia.org]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:35:45AM +1300, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-984052.html
> 
> What does this mean for Mono?

Nothing. This patent is absurd - it's an attempt to use patent
law to cover the "look-and-feel" copyright cases which were so
unsuccessful in the 80s.

Of course this is not to say that the USPTO has granted it, which
is itself quite absurd. 

But if the Mono blokes have any guts at all they will ignore this
patent and continue developing as if nothing had happened.

Rich.

/me thinks his third patent will be for Win32 ...

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