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Jonathan Schwartz, on the value of patents:
In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.”
Funny, I always thought that Leopard’s dock looked exactly like the one in Project Looking Glass.
/via Daring Fireball
