From: ems <oat@iinet.net.au>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] I suppose if there's no other way to do it (a quote from the tcl web site)
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:43:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155401016.5111.59.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60608120850u13b261a7h6f52fe1d917e8844@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 08:50 -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> On 8/12/06, ems <oat@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 07:19 +0100, Martin C. Atkins wrote:
> > > Actually, it pre-dates spotlight.
> > Lies. Patent 6,847,959 was filed on January 5, 2000.
> >
> > [0]
> > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,847,959.PN.&OS=PN/6,847,959&RS=PN/6,847,959
> >
>
> The Beagle implementation still pre-dated spotlight by quite a bit
> actually IIRC.
Lies. No more than Slashdot/Open Source propaganda. Jon beat Apple by 6
hours to presenting it to the public. Apple had a fully working product
by the presitation. Jon Trowbridge only had a preview of his work.
Google Desktop was announced soon after. Thats trends for you....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-12 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 14:13 Ronald G Minnich
2006-08-11 0:26 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-08-11 7:21 ` David Leimbach
2006-08-11 11:45 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-11 14:10 ` David Leimbach
2006-08-11 15:18 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-11 14:16 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-08-11 17:18 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-12 6:19 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-08-12 10:56 ` ems
2006-08-12 15:50 ` David Leimbach
2006-08-12 16:43 ` ems [this message]
2006-08-12 21:15 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-08-12 21:55 ` Russ Cox
2006-08-12 21:56 ` Russ Cox
2006-08-12 21:57 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-08-13 3:25 ` Anthony Sorace
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