14 Aug
2002
14 Aug
'02
4:39 a.m.
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) said:
Is the current "prior art" discussion about the USE of task switching, or
the NAME "Windows"? In other words, is this a PATENT, or a TRADEMARK
issue?
Trademark. I think Lindows is just trying to establish that "windows" and
"windowing" were widely-used industry terms before M$ took out the trademark
on that word.
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan