Re: Remote TM patent (fwd)
Gudmund Areskoug <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.kbabel |
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| Organization | Free Trade Associates |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: > DĹa Ĺ t 31. JĂşl 2003 12:54 Gudmund Areskoug napĂsal: > >>Hi, >> >>Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: >> >>>Some bad news.... >> >>took a quick peek at it, I hope someone more knowledgeable contests >>the claims. Looks like they shouldn't be able to get the patent >>through - even with the IMNSHO sick software patent laws applied >>"over there" - due to prior art. > > > Yes, the patent idea is pretty trivial, but I don't know any prior art. So I'd > like not to introduce remote TM into KBabel for some now (I know it's > requested feature) :-( I'd like to read up a bit more on it (sometime next week, I hope...), but I'm pretty sure that all or most of the things mentioned have been possible to do, and have been used to a larger or lesser extent for years with the proprietary professional tool DejaVu from Atril. I've already notified them. I never got around to trying it, but haven't some KDE translation teams (and/or Gnome and TP teams) been using Kdict etc. in much the same manner? BR, Gudmund