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wrote on 11 Oct 2005 10:06:41 -0700
If things get bad enough we'll go back to the future! Even fonts can be copyrighted. (The good news is that there are fonts under free license, as I understand it. We can use those.)
Could be smoother, but I agree an animation is worth a thousand words in this case. ;-)
See the "906" patent; one has to be very careful here. The problem with anything more complicated than an animated GIF is that another program is invoked on the user's system, infringing Eolas' patent.
Jorge Jorgensen Keep in mind that the OEM has paid as much as $60-machine for every machine that Microsoft believes it WILL SELL within the NEXT YEAR. Typically, this is about...
(One can click on a button which generates dynamic HTML in a document, which somehow elides the patent. Go fig.)
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, JEDIDIAH wrote on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:41:41 -0500 Maybe not, but there's some information that might not be suitable for-representable in-best viewed in text form. In a...
This is admittedly a side issue but is Yet Another Problem With Multimedia. A fair number of scientific websites use applets, which is a bit of a gray area, mostly because I'm not sure Mozzie has his own Java engine or just subinvokes "appletviewer".
It turns out Epiphany, at least, is in potential infringement of this patent, as is straight Mozilla; "pstree" is very clear on this, subinvoking something called "javavm" which is probably a wrapper script.
*sigh* Another website conversion in my future....
Not all interesting or relevant contant is created from scratch sans copyright. The Goldwater commercial in particular is of interest, as are my other examples.
-- It's still legal to go .sigless.
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