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

[David Faure]

On Thursday 27 May 2004 15:39, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 27 maja 2004 14:05, Luciano Montanaro napisał:
> >
> > Sure, that'd be better, if it is possible. But patents are coming out
> > for everything, and if they were to be enforced, we'd be in deep trouble.
> > Not KDE alone, obviously. How do we deal, for example with the "new" JPEG
> > patent?
> 
> JPEG is nothing (always can use PNG or other fileformat). What about 
> tree view of files? AFAIR IBM show patent for this in "discussion" with 
> SCO.

From what Waldo said, we have more chances on our side if we don't say publically
that we're ignoring a known patent (to be able to say that we were not aware of 
the patent, when accused).

So guys, please, *please*, stop coming up with possibly harmful patents here!

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).