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

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:11:28PM +0200, Denis Grelich wrote:
> 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."

Well and that's not the case with dwm/wmii. In dwm no geometry
is presaved at all per tag. In wmii a client can appear in all
tags, so there are no workspaces. Only limited use of the
dwm/wmii concepts might violate the patent, but that's a problem
of the user.

Regards,

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