RE: Microsoft patented keyboard-navigation?

That's USPTO patent number 6,368,227
 
We live in a crazy world indeed.
 
---Rotan.

 -----Original Message----- 
 From: Jon Hanna [mailto:jon@hackcraft.net] 
 Sent: Tue 07/09/2004 12:33 
 To: Charles McCathieNevile 
 Cc: Rotan Hanrahan; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; w3c-wai-au@w3.org 
 Subject: Re: Microsoft patented keyboard-navigation?
 
 

 > I see a job opportunity, for working at the US patent Office. (Along the 
 > lines of "When I am an evil mastermind I will employ a 5-year-old to 
 > review my plans  for world domination and point out the flaws that any 
 > 5-year-old could see").
 
 I'm reminded of the patent lawyer who was trying to explain what he did for a
 living to his daughter and ended up with her having the patent on using a
 playground swing with a side-to-side rather than back-and-forth motion.
 
 No, I'm not making this up, really.
 
 --
 Jon Hanna
 <http://www.hackcraft.net/>
 "One of the few good things about modern times:
 If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will
 have entertained us." - Kurt Vonnegut.
 

Received on Tuesday, 7 September 2004 11:44:15 UTC