Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 03:57:42 UTC 2010


On 07/16/2010 09:18 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com
> <mailto:metherid at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/16/2010 05:27 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>     > Is there any word (that you've heard by rumor) that indicates
>     what the
>     > possible immediate intellectual property problem may be?  The bug
>     > report doesn't specify anything.
>
>     I have no specific knowledge in this case but perhaps patents
>
>
> Err... yes. When you talk intellectual property in software, you talk
> patents. So what's the patent that could possibly pretend that you
> can't replace "this" with "that". You need to find "this" in a list,
> that provide the correction "that". Are there many more basic
> exercises in programming?
>
> Have you heard that OOo 3.2.1 solves this problem? I hope the tab will
> be removed before the final release! Man, patents on an equivalence list!

It is just unfortunate legal reality that patents on software can cover
quite basic ideas. 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents

Rahul


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