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oazabir / Droptiles

Droptiles is a "Windows 8 Start" like Metro-style Web 2.0 Dashboard. It compromises of Live Tiles. Tiles are mini apps that can fetch data from external sources. Clicking on a tile launches the full application.
http://oazabir.github.com/Droptiles/
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Microsoft patents #5

Open ralt opened 11 years ago

ralt commented 11 years ago

Hi,

This project is really nice. However, doesn't it violate some Microsoft patents?

oazabir commented 11 years ago

Does Microsoft hold patent on anything that I have used?

ralt commented 11 years ago

Nope. Looks like it's SurfCast that holds these patents. http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8s-halloween-surprise-metro-patent-lawsuit-7000006713/

But Microsoft also holds some relative to these interfaces in mobiles.

oazabir commented 11 years ago

Wow, how can someone parent an idea like showing multiple views as rectangular boxes! That would mean all the igoogle and widget powered websites are violation of this patent as well.

ralt commented 11 years ago

No, the violation comes from more subtle parameters. But your app, completely remaking the Metro UI in js (UI + behavior) must clearly violate some patents.

I'm not sure what I'd do though...

jlsfernandez commented 11 years ago

Have you check the guys that are behind Surfcast? check it in their web site in Contacts.

These is going to be a very funny story.

magicfa commented 10 years ago

Hahaha Some guys from IBM very funny surfcast story......