[ANNOUNCE] Spring loading folder behaviour (bad news inside)

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Thu May 27 10:13:24 BST 2004


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On Wed May 26 2004 21:52, Kévin 'ervin' Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since nobody objected, I commited this new feature... It's now available in
> HEAD.
>
> Sadly it seems that this feature is covered by a patent owned by Apple.
> This was pointed to me on #kde-devel just during my commit. I find this
> really disgusting... 
>
> Of course we can revert those patches or modify them so that we don't
> infringe this patent.

Please do so. Knowingly infringing a patent creates big liability issues for 
everyone involved.

Cheers,
Waldo
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