| Re: [AD] legal stuff: patents |
[ Thread Index |
Date Index
| More lists.liballeg.org/allegro-developers Archives
]
Chris La Mantia wrote:
> I'm sure some
company will probably show up someday claiming a patent on "a method of
displaying images on a display terminal" and sue every graphic library
programmer on earth....
IIRC SEGA had such a patent at one point.
In general, software patents tend to be used like WMD: For mutually
assured destruction.
--
- Robert Jr Ohannessian
http://bob.allegronetwork.com/