Thursday, February 26, 2004|
"Virtual desktop manager" patent granted to Microsoft. Microsoft gets another software patent and, not surprisingly, another programming community is disgusted. [Ars Technica] Actually, MSFT has only applied for the patent. The application is from October 2003, so there is plenty of time to fight this one. Slahdot has the following:
from the enlightenment-anyone dept. ihabawad writes "Microsoft has a patent on file for this really cool new technology called 'virtual desktops' where you see a 'pager' on the screen. Read all about it by searching under "Published Applications" for patent #20030189597 at the US Patent and Trademark Office. You know, I had a dream that I was using such a thing once; what was it called? -- yes, FvwmPager! Weird, eh?"
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Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager
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Dell Factory Installs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Beginning today, you can purchase new Dell PowerEdge servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES factory installed. Accompanying this release is a new version of OpenManage Server Administrator which supports RHEL3. Dell Precision Workstations have been available with RHEL3 WS since November. [Dell Linux Blog] 7:16:44 AM comment []
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We've got a date for BloggerCon II -- April 17. [Scripting News] 6:39:31 AM comment []
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