Spoiler: GNOME wins

Btw their GNOME Theme manager is here

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    If true, presumably that gnome and kde don’t believe in the software patent but Apple doesn’t want to try its luck and risk getting in a lawsuit.

    (That said, they’re not exactly short of lawyers for a lawsuit… Maybe it’s in their interest to uphold the principle of software patents?)

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      6 months ago

      Gnome and KDE had this feature LONG before Microsoft, so they have prior art to prove it’s an invalid patent

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          6 months ago

          Yeah, I meant it’s unlikely Microsoft would try to sue Gnome or KDE for it, because they’d likely lose the patent

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            6 months ago

            Yeah but my understanding is if they have a patent or the copyright or whatever it is, if they do not go after any single possible infringement, they’re potentially throwing away those rights at a later time. At least that’s how I understand it works in the USA at least?