Re: [livecode] Fwd: IEEE1588 patent encumbered -- project needs different leader

From: nescivi <nescivi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:08:15 -0500

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...

sincerely,
Marije
Received on Thu Jan 21 2010 - 15:08:40 GMT

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