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____/ Rex Ballard on Thursday 08 Apr 2010 05:46 : \____
> On Apr 7, 6:39 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Apple â The Competent Danger to Free Software
>
> I can't think of too many things more stupid that attempting to sue
> Apple over patent infringments in OS/X, regardless of the platform.
> Keep in mind that much of the BSD code is over 30 years old, some as
> old as 35 years old. The predecessor code was AT&T code which was put
> into public domain (Version 6).
>
> The GUI interfaces are based on X11, including X11 libraries and
> related tools (Apple uses a unix domain socket rather than TCP/IP
> socket, as do most Linux distributions. MIT is Open Source, much of
> the code dating back to the 1980s.
>
> There are a few patents Apple has WANTED to license - from Xerox.
> Remember that Apple techies and Steve Jobs went to Palo Alto to look
> at the Xerox Alto, which became the basis for the Apple Lisa and later
> the Mac. To reduce the risk of patent issues, Apple wrote their Mac
> systems in "Clascal" an object oriented Pascal. Later Apple adopted
> other technologies.
>
> Xerox could probably prevail in a lawsuit against Apple, but it's
> unlikely that it would pass muster in the long run. More recent
> patents from Xerox include a number of virtual desktop strategies.
Xerox is a dying company, so it feed patents to trolls.
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