Re: [wmii] Does wmii violate U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412?

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:14:05 +0200
"Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:04:55PM +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote:
> > This is a hot news [1]. Do you think that our darling wmii
> > can violate that patent (User Interface with Multiple
> > Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects)? ;)
>
> There are no workspaces in wmii or dwm. So the patent is not
> relevant to wmii or dwm. There is only a single workspace (we
> call it view).

They talk about the internal representation where the position and
gemotry of the windows is saved "per workspace."
Received on Fri Oct 12 2007 - 15:11:29 UTC