____/ Mark Kent on Friday 09 November 2007 18:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Introducing the real 3D Compiz!
>>
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>>| Although I do not think that people would be wearing funny glasses all day
>>| long to work on their PC, possibilities this plugin presents are quite
>>| exciting for gamers and everyone wanting to show off the ?real? 3D desktop.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2007/11/01/introducing-the-real-3d-compiz/
>> http://tinyurl.com/2vvqql
>>
>> Wait until Microsoft nicks the idea and calls it "innovation" while
>> hammering journalists for publicity 24/7.
>>
>
> I think that the most important thing which all free software projects
> can do now is to keep writing and publishing these ideas as early as
> they can, no matter how half-baked, alpha, incomplete or whatever they
> might be, because this is what will keep the patent trolls at bay.
> Prior-art is critical in this, in order to demonstrate both that the
> free software world is where the real innovation is, as well as to
> demonstrate that for the Nafta countries and Australia, that Acacia or
> Microsoft or Novell do not own this stuff - it's already out there.
The world apparently begins to hear about how broken USPTO is. The same goes
for OSI, ECMA, and the ISO. They are just hurting themselves and they won't be
taken seriously at the end (I already merely skip the 'open source' news
feeds).
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~~ Best of wishes
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