[Thunar-dev] Some minor thingies...

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Though, to be perfectly frank, no one should have brought up the patent
issue at all.  If we didn't know about it, and implemented it anyway,
Apple could certainly sue someone, but they'd be more likely to just
settle for a C&D letter that requires the feature's removal.  They might
even not care, it being an OSS project and all.

Now that we know it's possibly patented, it becomes willful
infringement, and if Apple chose to, they could kick some ass, at least
in the US.  Willful infringement carries much larger penalties than
accidental.

This is one of the reason most people will recommend that engineers and
technology innovators not research patents at all.  (Well, up until they
want to actually patent their work, anyway.)

But yeah, IANAL.  This is just shit I've heard.

	-b

sofar wrote:
> IANAL !!!
> 
> Apple (and any major corporation in the industry) will most likely try to file all their patents in both US, important Asian and european markets. If you have any doubts, contact a legal representator or parties like the EFF/EDRI on the issue, most of them can help you with factual information. Even though patents might not prove valid in certain areas, it could seriously impact the way Xfce can be distributed - even though it's almost completely based in Europe. Sad but true.
> 
> Can someone explain to me which "method" we're actually talking about? that is somewhat unclear to me.
> 
> Auke
> 
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:49:48 +0100, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
>> Yo'av Moshe wrote:
>>> Umm, as far as I know, using this method as a whole for Thunar is not
>>> possible, since Apple (If I can remember correctly) has a patent for
>>> it. This is why I thought we should only be using it for the sidepane.
>>>
>>> Can someone confirm the patent thing? I can dig my mails but not at
>> 4:20...
>>
>> I'm not an expert here, but I doubt that Apple has a patent for this in
>> germany. And so, IIRC, it shouldn't be a problem, right?
>>
>>> Yo'av.
>> Benedikt
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