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Urgent: columns view on other platforms legal?
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sadie
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Feb 3, 2002, 07:32 PM
 
This is urgent - i need answers now.

I'm writing for my company a piece of software that doesn't run on the Mac. I'm tempted to use an OS X / NeXT style columns view because, well, it's so good. It would be the perfect solution to my software UI.

My question is: would that be legal? Do Apple own any patents or whatever on that method of viewing? If we released and got paid money for a piece of non-Mac software with it (it's Java, so it would run, but our market isn't Mac users - or the general public) would they come and get us?
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Feb 3, 2002, 08:31 PM
 
Several NeXTish file browsers have existed on other platforms for quite some time now, including column-esque view. Apple hasn't ever done anything about them. Given that, it should be safe to go on with your own project.
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Feb 3, 2002, 08:36 PM
 
Originally posted by Millennium:
<STRONG>it should be safe to go on with your own project.</STRONG>
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