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| Authored by: pem on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 07:47 PM EDT |
to anyone who has done any kind of forward error correction, or speech
recognition, or used Markov models.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:09 AM EDT |
As another pointed out, the breakthroughs were capacitative touch screens and
hardware fast enough to track a quickly moving finger. These things were
difficult, and we quite rightly handed patents to the companies that discovered
the solutions to these problems. They produced the chips and screens, or
licensed them on reasonable terms to those that made them. They are everywhere.
Once anyone got one of these devices in there hand, it took them seconds to draw
lines. gestures. swipe. With the hardware, the ways to use it were there. from
there, just a Simple Matter Of Programming, with the product being copyrightable
software.
All the patent for swype meant that only one person could develop it. If swype
had not been handed this patent, then Google would have made a gesture-capable
keyboard the default. As would Apple. So the patent did not produce the swype
keyboard, it merely kept it out of the hands of most of the population. A big
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| Authored by: jesse on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 04:29 AM EDT |
| And that goes back to the 5th century BC. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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