J. Clarke wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> AaronJ wrote:
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>it's rather disappointing that Palm did not allow
>>>>the user an easy _choice_. [G1 or G2]
>>>
>>> Palm had no choice. A judge had ruled that Graffiti 1 infringed on a
>>> patent Xerox held on a handwriting recognition method called Unistrokes.
>>
>> Excellent. So every Palm user has to suffer. Now isn't society treading
>> onwards into a future of innovation and greater ease? I am very glad that
>> the EU software patent bill was binned.
>
> One wonders why Xerox bothered with the suit--they'd have made a lot more
> money by clobbering Apple over the Mac but they didn't bother then. I
> suspect that there was some sort of political motivation for going after
> Palm.
These ones maybe?
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,2071972,00.htm
http://www.winplanet.com/article/1099-.htm
http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/018v.jsp?view=Micro ...
soft&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz
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