On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oh and make sure you don't violate any Apple patents... other than my > being listed in the patent (I'm still trying to figure out why), the > patent below is the most ridiculous piece of crap I've seen since IBM > patented object oriented programming.... > > http://www.patents.com/Method-apparatus-managing-windows-7739604.html [ ... abstract elided ... ] please do not post patent abstracts to this or any other mailing list. US law poses no requirement on an "inventor" to perform a patent search, and a provable lack of awareness of existing patents does have a small but definite impact on the legal result of an infringement. by posting to the mailing list, you make provable lack of awareness much harder to prove. posting a link to the patent doesn't expose us to this issue, and leaves individuals free to decide whether to follow the link or not. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
