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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: PsychoticDreams on 29 December 2002, 23:15

Title: Trillian
Post by: PsychoticDreams on 29 December 2002, 23:15
trillian is awesome and it saves desk space http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/trillian/index.html (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/trillian/index.html) check it out
Title: Trillian
Post by: Refalm on 29 December 2002, 23:20
Gaim for Windows (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/) is still in a lot of development, but when it's done, it will kick Trillian's arse for sure!
Title: Trillian
Post by: Master of Reality on 30 December 2002, 00:24
quote:
Originally posted by Refalm:
Gaim for Windows (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/) is still in a lot of development, but when it's done, it will kick Trillian's arse for sure!
sweet, Gaim for Linux is awesome.
Title: Trillian
Post by: caveman_piet on 30 December 2002, 01:17
ahem   :D  

Now if PsychoticDreams explains how it
saves "desk" space I'll be happy to investigate
this here strange piece of software  ;)  

The trillian I use sure doesn't clutter the
workspace - THAT is a winbloze speciality!

heh heh....
Title: Trillian
Post by: Fett101 on 30 December 2002, 02:52
Until AOL decides to sue them all for infringing thier patent.
Title: Trillian
Post by: solo on 30 December 2002, 03:29
do you truly think aol could win in a patent case for instant messenging??? that's like trying to patent communication.

microshit didnt win the lindows case...
Title: Trillian
Post by: caveman_piet on 30 December 2002, 03:49
AS BETWEEN TWO INVENTORS, PRIORITY OF INVENTION WILL BE AWARDED
TO THE ONE WHO BY SATISFYING PROOF CAN SHOW THAT HE FIRST CONCEIVED OF
THE INVENTION.  P. 34.

4.  COMMERCIAL SUCCESS ACHIEVED BY THE LATER INVENTOR AND PATENTEE
CANNOT SAVE HIS PATENT FROM THE DEFENSE OF ANTICIPATION BY A PRIOR
INVENTOR.  P. 35.


This taken from the well known case of
Nikola Tesla and  Guglielmo Marconi
where Tesla was eventually awarded the patent
rights for what effective we today know
as "radio".

Marconi lost and Tesla won...
So for the history buffs - lotta people are/was
misled as to whom actually invented "radio transmittion"..

1943
Nine months after Tesla's death, the Supreme Patent Court of the USA decides that Nikola
Tesla must be considered the father of wireless transmission and radio.
Justifying its decision the court notes that in Marconi's related Patent (No. 763772 of 1904) there is nothing new not having been earlier
published and registered by Tesla. The Court considered Marconi's claim that he did not knew of Tesla's patents false.
Title: Trillian
Post by: Fett101 on 30 December 2002, 06:20
quote:
Originally posted by Solo:
do you truly think aol could win in a patent case for instant messenging??? that's like trying to patent communication.

microshit didnt win the lindows case...



That was more a prod at AOL then an actual opinion.