Re: spring loaded folders

[Lars Weber <lars brokenbits de>]

iain <iain prettypeople org> wrote:
> > Having said that, I'm prepared to bet that GAIM currently breaches
> > another Apple patent (the one about being able to drag tabs
> > around/between windows) and nobody seems too bothered :)
> 
> Thats an Adobe patent surely?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5,546,528'.WKU.&OS=PN/5,546,528&RS=PN/5,546,528

They once filed a lawsuit against Macromedia because of this and IIRC they
won.  Macromedia later filed lawsuits in turn against Adobe for violation
of three other patents and (at least IIRC again), after winning at least
one of them, they settled on cross-licensing.

> I think a lot of Gnome apps are violating that one...

As far as the abstract goes (I couldn't stand the pain of reading on) the
old system monitor did and there's at least one application I know of that
still does (there are likely more).

One sad thing about this is that when I had this exact same idea myself
quite a while ago, I wasn't even _in the slightest_ surprised to find out
that the system monitor already implemented it.

That Adobe has been granted a patent on this one saddens me like hell...

Regards,
Lars