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Apple Sued For Using Tabs In OS X Tiger
rizzo320 writes "AppleInsider is reporting that an Illinois-based company and its Nevada partner have filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging that Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' infringes an interface patent relating to the OS's nearly universal use of tabs. The suit was filed in the patent troll's and forum shopper's favorite venue: Marshall, TX. The patent in question is 5072412, which was originally issued to Xerox in 1987, but is now owned or licensed to IP Innovation LLC and its parent Technology Licensing Corporation. 'Category dividers triggered by Spotlight searches, as well as page tabs in the Safari web browser, bear the closest similarity to the now 20-year-old description' of the patent, according to the article. IP Innovation is requesting damages in excess of $20 million and an injunction against future sales and distribution of Mac OS X 10.4. Software patent reform can't come soon enough!"
Your Slashdot ID is not low so you are not a person I was targeting with this post. Feel free not to read it.
When were 65K IDs being given out? I'm guessing in 1999 sometime?
I am a complete newbie compared to you, but I've seen my share of slashdot for quite a while in most people's time frames and I think you're on the same level as me.
I enjoy slashdot for the geeky news, for interesting articles, not for "This guy said Windows sucks" or "this guy wrote a song about this and that in Cuba". Geeks are quirky and like hacks as well as news, Slashdot needs more articles aimed to stimulate our minds not our post counts.
But hey you're not the only one who wants a lower ID. I dread to think that I'll be here in ten years and thought of as a low ID, but hey who knows.
I like muppets.