Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) said:
>
> Is the current "prior art" discussion about the USE of task switching, or
> the NAME "Windows"? In other words, is this a PATENT, or a TRADEMARK
> issue?
Trademark. I think Lindows is just trying to establish that "windows" and
"windowing" were widely-used industry terms before M$ took out the trademark
on that word.
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Wed Aug 14 2002 - 11:39:00 BST