Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: More intellectual property CBM needs to worry about.... Message-ID: Date: 11 Aug 90 04:10:58 GMT Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Distribution: comp Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 52 As far as I can tell, the "virtual desktop" described herein is identical to the feature of 2.0 that allows the workbench screen to be bigger than the physical screen. I vaguelly recall a hack that implemented this feature a while back. If the author - or someone with proof of date of publication of that hack - could get that information to these people, it could save a lot of people some heartaches. In the meantime, I'd like to know what - if anything - CBM is doing about it's various infringements of people's intellectual property rights. To: staff@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: TWM Virtual Desktop, Look & Feel Lawsuits etc. As many of you know, there was a version of TWM available recently, which had patches (written by Dave Edmondson of Imperial College) which added a "Virtual Desktop" facility. This allowed you to spread your windows out over virtual space and select which area to view at any one time. The feature was modelled after the Solbourne Window Manager, performing the same sort of tasks as their Virtual Desktop. Wednesday, the patches allowing TWM to do this were placed into the contrib area on expo.lcs.mit.edu. Following this, Dave Edmondson yesterday received a letter from Paul Lippe, the vice president of Solbourne stating that he had "engaged in unauthorized copying of Solbourne's virtual desktop utility feature". Legal discussions are currently underweigh and, until further notice, the vtwm in the windowmanagers locker has been made unavailable. Nick. njw@athena.mit.edu njw@doc.imperial.ac.uk -- end of forward -- Es brillig war. Die schlichte Toven Mike Meyer Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben; mwm@relay.pa.dec.com Und aller-mumsige Burggoven decwrl!mwm Die mohmem Rath' ausgraben.