On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:08 -0500, nescivi wrote:
> Hiho,
>
> On Thursday 21 January 2010 04:07:20 alex wrote:
> > I think I read somewhere that the chuck runtime and language are part
> > of smule, in which case the same applies to ChucK. It seems a bit
> > like tivoisation by the back door. Patents come into it on a tangent
> > because the iphone is full of them. In the US, the android o/s has
> > multitouch disabled, because Apple have the US software patent on
> > touching your computer in more than one place at the same time.
> > Software patents may well come to Europe in the near future.
>
> >From when does this patent date?
> I've seen multitouch surfaces (not from Apple) a long time before the iPhone
> came out, so just wondering...
That probably doesn't matter in the slightest - a patent is only really
valid after it's been tested in court.
The patent system is quite on topic for livecoding, as they seem to make
a lot of it up as they go along :)
cheers,
dave
Received on Thu Jan 21 2010 - 15:57:17 GMT