[M3devel] building packages from source from cvs -- odbc

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
there seems to be a relation between Modula-3 GUI INTERFACE specification of a pen-handling UI that allowed to type letters from uni-strokes:
http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?page=11&xmldoc=2001481198FSupp2d283_1453.xml&docbase=CSLWAR2-1986-2006&SizeDisp=7

3com argued that the Modula-3's XEROX Patent wasn't infringed since the OS hadn't specified that functionality but settled the case with a money deal and a 7-year peace deal over mutual patents from 3com:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_June_28/ai_n26909742/

Now that next year deal will be over they might be interested in pursuing another set of questions over XEROX's OS using Modula-3 code in ESC (because they would still need to proof full-integrity of Modula-3 ESC tool) and libraries use by XEROX OS:
http://www.google.com/patents/US5596656

I think we could ask if they want to litigate over the XEROX' OS again.
Thanks in advance

--- El vie, 18/5/12, Mika Nystrom <mika at async.caltech.edu> escribió:

> De: Mika Nystrom <mika at async.caltech.edu>
> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] building packages from source from cvs -- odbc
> Para: "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Fecha: viernes, 18 de mayo, 2012 13:03
> Hendrik Boom writes:
> >On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:11:11AM -0700, Mika Nystrom
> wrote:
> >> Hendrik Boom writes:
> >> ...
> >. I was surprised to find it here; I had thought the
> source code to be 
> >> long lost.
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> It's not.  I was promised it and started to
> set up the directories but the
> >> gentleman who promised me the code seems to have
> fallen off the earth.
> >
> >So the ESC directory isn't ESC yet?  Did the
> gentleman send you some 
> >but not all of it? 
> >
> >-- hendrik
> 
> What's in there is Simplify, which has been distributed with
> other projects
> (specifically with ESC/Java).  It's also part of the
> original ESC.
> 
>      Mika
>