Thursday, June 03, 2004
Microsoft Patents the "double-click" !
In what has to be one of the most obvious thefts of public domain knowledge, U.S. Patent 6,727,830 grants Microsoft Corporation the exclusive rights to launch applications with a double-click. Their patent application was filed in 2002, approximately twenty years after Apple was using double-clicks to start applications (a concept that Apple, no doubt, stole from Xerox PARC.)
In what has to be one of the most obvious thefts of public domain knowledge, U.S. Patent 6,727,830 grants Microsoft Corporation the exclusive rights to launch applications with a double-click. Their patent application was filed in 2002, approximately twenty years after Apple was using double-clicks to start applications (a concept that Apple, no doubt, stole from Xerox PARC.)
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