[maemo-developers] Moderator speak up - is maemo multitouch thread ok or not

[From: Darius Jack]

--- On Fri, 5/9/08, Simon Pickering <S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Simon Pickering <S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: Moderator speak up - is maemo multitouch thread ok or not
> To: dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Date: Friday, 5 September, 2008, 7:21 PM
> >> Someone else mentioned possible patent
> infringements, I
> >> don't know how much
> >> of a factor this is.
> >
> > Who said so ?
> > What parent infringements ?
> > I have carefully analyzed patent applications by Apple
> and full-text  
> >  patents granted to Apple
> > and there is nothing what can be infringed with
> another multitouch   
> > solution by Nokia, Samsung, Google or others.
> > Just learn to read patent law and patent full texts.
> 
> Great, I have some experience with reading patents (mainly
> for  
> Jazelle), could you give us the patent numbers (preferably
> US patents  
> so we can use the Google search) so we can also look at
> them?

Wrong. You don't have any experience with reading patents.
There is a nice interface at USPTO to visit one day.

> 
> >> putting together good
> >> business cases to say how multi-touch will be
> beneficial
> > ask Steve Jobs
> 
> I don't have his email; do you?
You may call his secretary.

> 
> >> No-one is stopping you, in fact if you can get the
> >> non-multitouch resistive
> >> screen to produce useful
> "multitouch-like"
> >> behaviour, which is what Gary
> >> (lcuk) has been looking at, I'm sure we'll
> all be
> >> very pleased.
> >
> > Who is Gary ?
> 
> Gary is lcuk on IRC.

Thanks.

http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/page/3/
"
Gary Birkett (better known on IRC as lcuk) gave a short talk on how and why he got involved in memo.org - an interesting perspective on motivations of volunteers, and a classic “scratching your own itch” situation. He’s developed a text reader which works in full-screen, and has smooth scrolling with finger & stylus (like the iPhone).
"
Darius
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Simon

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