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Article #4992Re: Hypercard license Infringement !!
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 20:59
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 20:59
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In article <3710@unix.SRI.COM>, stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes: > Today (9-21-89) I got a call from our pattent office > saying that SRI cold be held liable for patent infringement > because of hypercards scripting capabilities. > > A company called HyperZoom wants SRI to protect itself by buying > a license from them for about $10 a mac. They've actually been doing this for a while. They make a product (for PCs, last I knew) called "ZoomRacks", which has a few similarities to HyperCard, notably a "card" metaphor and some scripting capabilities. What they claim to have a patent on is a "rack-of-cards" metaphor, and instead of trying to take on Apple about HyperCard itself, they are trying to get anyone whose stack might infringe on this patent to pay them a license fee. They think of anyone writing HyperCard stacks to be fair game. As for me, I'm pretty skeptical. Even for a computer patent, this seems to be stretching things pretty far... Anyone have more concrete information? -- Amanda Walker amanda@intercon.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard license Infringement !! Message-ID: <1465@intercon.com> Date: 21 Sep 89 20:59:40 GMT References: Hyperzoom,zoomrect <3710@unix.SRI.COM> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 25