Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Feb 2006 10:50 UTC, submitted by editingwhiz
Google and CodeWeavers are working together to bring Google's popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say. The Linux Picasa implementation includes the full feature set of the Windows Picasa 2.x software. It is not, strictly speaking, a port of Picasa to Linux. Instead, Linux Picasa combines Windows Picasa code and Wine technology to run Windows Picasa on Linux. This, however, will be transparent to Linux users, when they download, install, and run the free program on their systems.
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2005-10-02
Well, fortunately some of us don't have to worry about such nonsense as patents
However, it is clearly a problem if releasing software in USA, or releasing software for the US market. And since this is the case for Google, they'll have to pay attention.
He didn't ignore IP - IP is an important issue in regard to secure open source software. Strong protection of IP equals strong protection of GPL'ed software to take an example. An almost-paradox.