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June 02, 2004
Double Click
Microsoft was just awarded a patent, number 6,727,830, on the "double-click". Give me a fucking break.
And while I'm on the topic of things you should click, the Politburo Diktat has a nice interview with Wonkette.
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I don't get it. How can they patent a double click?
And MACs had that 15 years ago btw.
Posted by: Calliope at Jun 2, 2004 9:25:52 PM
If someone slid through a patent on Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Microsoft would go out of business the next day.
Posted by: Beck at Jun 2, 2004 9:35:50 PM
God I love the patent office.
Posted by: Walter Wallis at Jun 2, 2004 9:46:04 PM
Wonkette has managed to turn blogging into junior high school lunch room gossip. Woo woo. Color me unimpressed.
=darwin
Posted by: Darwin at Jun 3, 2004 5:29:09 AM
"If someone slid through a patent on Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Microsoft would go out of business the next day."
ROFLMAO!!!
Posted by: Calliope at Jun 3, 2004 9:19:03 AM
No no no.
The slashdot article was written by an idiot.
The patent is for a pda device that does different things to an application depending on how long you hold the button.
Click the button and the application launches.
Click the button twice and the application launches with a blank document.
Hold the button for one second and release and the application launches the last document opened.
Hold the button for two seconds and release and the application launches the next to the last document opened.
Posted by: IkkonoIshi at Jun 3, 2004 12:59:11 PM
IkkonoIshi is correct.
Double-click is mentioned as an illustrative example but is not in and of itself patented.
Even so, I think patents of this sort are granted because the patent office is clueless about computers and software.
Posted by: Uncle Bill at Jun 3, 2004 3:31:35 PM
Ctrl-Alt-Delete is already patented. See http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/18001162.html
Posted by: Wiley14 at Feb 15, 2006 10:54:29 AM
