Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de>, PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de> writes
>>Not necessarily.  You may be hindered by
>>(1) patents
>>(2) obscure interfaces that will be somewhere else by the
>>    time you have finally emulated them

> (1) Most such patents are invalid as they refer to a generic or pre-
> existing item.

Which makes one wonder what patent offices are up to :)

> (2) See the Caldera lawsuite.

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/05
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