Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Microsoft pockets an IM patent (fwd)]

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:04:17, Calum Benson wrote:

> Microsoft has won a patent for an instant messaging feature that
> notifies users when the person they are communicating with is typing a
> message.

Most people on this list probably don't know but people used write on UNIX  
long time ago. write would to the annoyance of the target print
\n
Message from chbm on terminal ttyp4 22:45:00 Thursday Oct 09 1983
\n
as soon as the other side started the write command.

Here's your prior art :)


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