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From: thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gilligan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X marks the suit
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Date: 8 Aug 90 01:07:35 GMT
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  Oh boy, the software nazis strike again.  So lemme guess, They want
us all to buy licenses for swm, and if it won't run on our machines
then we'll just have to buy Their machines.
  Come on, what is so patentable about the ability to push all of your
windows in one direction at once?  If they don't chill out I'm going
to write a set of user-unfriendly utilities that replicate it.  How
difficult is it to relocate all the windows on the screen?

  foreach window
    {
	if (no TACKED_DOWN property)
	    if (iconic)
		relocate icon
	    else
		relocate window
    }

  There are ICCCM compliant ways to do this.  Do they want to patent
these methods too?
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