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Article #274Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective
From: Mark C. Orton
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 23:28
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 23:28
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tim werner (werner@sparcserver.mc.ab.com) quoth:
> >From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
> >Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys,gnu.misc.discuss,alt.gif-agreement,alt.online-service.compuserve
> >Date: 18 Jan 1995 14:53:49 -0800
> >
> >The use of XOR is patented, unfortunately.
> >
> >Someone is charging royalties from the big computer companies for the use of
> >XOR to create nondestructive cursor (for text or graphics).
> Isn't that Apple? And, isn't that patent one of the reasons for the
> existence of the Free Software Foundation, and the Apple boycott?
No, the reason for the FSF's Apple boycott is Apple's attempt to
copyright the "Look and feel" of the Macintosh windowing interface.
I think the XOR nondestructive cursor patent may belong to RCA.
It goes back a bit further than Apple.
--
Mark C. Orton
employed by (but not speaking for)
Pulse Communications, Inc.
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