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

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:12:37PM +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote:
> "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> writes:
>
> > 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).
> >
> > Tell the Redhat/Novell people that if distributing KDE/Gnome
> > scares them, they should consider using dwm/wmii as
> > alternatives, because they don't violate this patent.
>
> It's true that I can see only one view at the given moment,
> but also I can have another "virtual" workspaces. Yes, I can't
> see them when I work with current view, but I can switch
> to them, because they still exist :)
>
> Is it not a idea of multiple workspaces? ;)

No. ;)

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