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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 02:02 PM EDT |
I think we differ on what our society should consider fair
use, creative etc... I would be very sorry to see ownership
something like slide to unlock be a standard we want to
uphold.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 02:16 PM EDT |
slide to lock/unlock: hotel door lock
bounce at end of scroll: models physical process that's literally as old as the
universe
etc.
For that matter, coverflow, models picking the top of a stack and moving it to
another stack; nothing new there either.
Apple gets credit for making it all very polished, but not the right to exclude
others from the obvious.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 11:02 PM EDT |
Slide to unlock, slide to unlock; oh, yes, how original--as
original the slide to unlock fasteners on the front and top of
the AN/ARC-5 "Command" receivers and transmitters of World War
2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SCR-274_XMIT.jpg). Or the
battery hatches on uncountable children's toys. Or...
No, no, PJ: Software and patents don't need a divorce. They
need an annulment.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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