[Gllug] XOR
Rich Walker
rw at shadow.org.uk
Thu Apr 15 17:14:35 UTC 2004
Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> writes:
>
> There's even a bogus patent on using XOR for cursor drawing IIRC. See
> John Walker's page about bogus patents:
If you read the History of Autodesk book on the website, you'll see that
it isn't a "bogus" patent - those who filed the patent were able to
exploit it to make money from licensees (including Autodesk, who paid
some $50k or so for a license because they were being threatened with a
lawsuit shortly before their IPO). It is, however, a classic example of
abuse of patent law for exploitation of the commons...
cheers, Rich.
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