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From: palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Quarterdeck's "patent"
Message-ID: <4664@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 09:30:18 GMT
References: <1756@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <1756@husc6.harvard.edu>, by ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani):
> In article <3190@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
  [some text deleted]
> | What they do is let the dos program write into where the screen memory
> | is, and they have service routines look there and copy the new output
> | to their windows.
> 
> 	If the patent really is on this general concept (letting the program
> write where it wants and copying the data) I'm pretty sure it has been
> done before. 

  Gee, If I have a copyright on my screen output and Deskview makes
  a direct copy of it without my permission I can sue them. At least I have
  the proof of the patent. Are you listening Lotus?

  ---Bob


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