Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: Richard Tobin
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 18:34

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In article <WERNER.95Jan23202726@sparcserver.mc.ab.com> werner@sparcserver.mc.ab.com (tim werner) writes:
>>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, it isn't Apple.  And you're thinking of the League for Programming
Freedom, not the FSF.  The xor-cursor patent is just an
obviously-absurd patent, not the reason for the LPF.  Finally, xor
is a lousy way to do a cursor.

-- Richard

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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective
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