Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 15th May 2004 08:23 UTC
It is when I read articles like this that I have "my blood all going up to my head" (that's a Greek saying for people that get angry). So apparently, Apple is trying to patent "transparent windows that do a certain action after fading away". While I don't personally find this "innovation/invention" patentable, it's fine with me: Apple is doing the best it can to secure its business (maybe I would do the same if I had shareholders on my back).
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I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one infuriated by that comment! Immediately I thought of several areas where (fairly obscure, to be sure) Linux GUI's are innvoative. But, more the point, the author is legitimatizing Apple's patents on trivial technology. It really shouldn't be to hard to find prior art, but this gets to the heart of OS's problem, how does OS defend against corporate lawsuits? We need some kind of legal fund community specifically for defending against patents, and possibly even keeping a retaliatory patent portfolio (open to all open-source projects of course) at ready.
Erik