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https://patents.google.com/patent/US6661436B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US6661436B2/en Method for providing window snap control for a split screen co

by based2 3y ago

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6661436B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US6661436B2/en Method for providing window snap control for a split screen computer program GUI https://patents.justia.com/patent/6661436 https://patents.justia.com/patent/6661436 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250201392 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250201392 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/07/gnome-shell-quarter-tiling-extension-wintile https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/07/gnome-shell-quarter-tili...

toxicFork 3y ago
Another reason for "patents are awful"
mvdtnz 3y ago
Patents can be licensed.
- hackernewds 3y ago
  Yet HN biases to Apple = good, Google = evil
bluejekyll 3y ago
IANAL, but, “Status: Expired - Lifetime”
- piskov 3y ago
  2022-04-19 Adjusted expiration
malwrar 3y ago
Hmm that patent appears to have expired. If it was the reason this feature hasn't been implemented, looks like they're in the clear to do so now.
rhaway84773 3y ago
So an expired patent which was previously owned by IBM is why Apple cannot have windows tiling but Windows and Linux have had for decades?
- delfinom 3y ago
  It's assumed Microsoft paid the troll toll (probably 2 decades ago). Linux is a complicated field to litigate anyone over a patent. It does happen just not easily compared to suing a big corp. But o god I found more cancer: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110099512 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110099512 Splitting one monitor into two virtual monitors is patented. Fuck you LG.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    Samsung DeX (Android desktop environment) has window snapping via click and drag as well
  - hackernewds 3y ago
    How can such general technologies be privately patented? What if someone patented the QWERTY keyboard?
    - bluejekyll 3y ago
      QWERTY was patented, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY “Patent No. 207,559, issued August 27, 1878 to Christopher Sholes.” https://patents.google.com/patent/US207559A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US207559A/en
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IshKebab 3y ago
That patent is for the ability to resize windows once they have been sent to half the screen. Windows does that. But Linux (at least Gnome) doesn't support it so it doesn't violate the patent. You can send windows to half the screen but you can't conveniently move the split point. But MacOS doesn't even let you do that. I always end up installing Spectacle or Rectangle or whatever it is and using keyboard shortcuts.
- happymellon 3y ago
  > You can send windows to half the screen but you can't conveniently move the split point. This is incorrect.

by based2 3y ago

toxicFork 3y ago

Another reason for "patents are awful"

mvdtnz 3y ago

Patents can be licensed.

hackernewds 3y ago
Yet HN biases to Apple = good, Google = evil

bluejekyll 3y ago

IANAL, but, “Status: Expired - Lifetime”

piskov 3y ago
2022-04-19 Adjusted expiration

malwrar 3y ago

Hmm that patent appears to have expired. If it was the reason this feature hasn't been implemented, looks like they're in the clear to do so now.

rhaway84773 3y ago

So an expired patent which was previously owned by IBM is why Apple cannot have windows tiling but Windows and Linux have had for decades?

delfinom 3y ago
It's assumed Microsoft paid the troll toll (probably 2 decades ago). Linux is a complicated field to litigate anyone over a patent. It does happen just not easily compared to suing a big corp. But o god I found more cancer: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110099512 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110099512 Splitting one monitor into two virtual monitors is patented. Fuck you LG.
- rchaud 3y ago
  Samsung DeX (Android desktop environment) has window snapping via click and drag as well
- hackernewds 3y ago
  How can such general technologies be privately patented? What if someone patented the QWERTY keyboard?
  - bluejekyll 3y ago
    QWERTY was patented, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY “Patent No. 207,559, issued August 27, 1878 to Christopher Sholes.” https://patents.google.com/patent/US207559A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US207559A/en

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IshKebab 3y ago

That patent is for the ability to resize windows once they have been sent to half the screen. Windows does that. But Linux (at least Gnome) doesn't support it so it doesn't violate the patent. You can send windows to half the screen but you can't conveniently move the split point. But MacOS doesn't even let you do that. I always end up installing Spectacle or Rectangle or whatever it is and using keyboard shortcuts.

happymellon 3y ago
> You can send windows to half the screen but you can't conveniently move the split point. This is incorrect.