> That's funny, because I've seen Windows utilities that you could download > that would do the exact same thing as the Mac does. > I'll have to ask around tomorrow at work and see what the name of the > utility was, but I definitely have seen at least one. > > Another thing that strikes me as odd is that I thought MACs use at least > some parts of KDE, and X now, which means they should have to contribute > some of that code back, right? I'm beginning to wonder if I'm a little off > on this part somewhere. There is a lot of code released under various free licenses in OSX. That doesn't mean they have to release all of their own, in-house code under those licenses. As far as Windows utilities that violate the patent go, the fact that they exist doesn't make them legal :) -- JH KDE Frequently Asked Questions: http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdebase/faq/ panic("esp_handle: current_SC == penguin within interrupt!"); ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.