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Desktop Environment User Interface Surveys

Submitted by khanreaper on Tue, 2005-03-29 12:28. Usability
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Reading over GNOME's desktop-devel mailing list and KDE's Dot News, I stumbled across two sets of user interface and satisfaction surveys that inquire into users think about GNOME and KDE's offerings. The organization performing the inquiry is the Human Aspects of Software Engineering (HASE) group over at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

I have to be candid in saying that I am surprised to see that a link to the surveys never made it here to, so I am including the links below for those who are interested in participating:

Yes, patent license

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-04-01 08:25.

What sort of license do you think they want money for? Go on, have a guess. Yes, that's right, patent licenses. I could demand money for every mp3 codec anywhere, but I don't have a patnt on it, so nobody has to comply with my demands.

Fraunhofer have a patent on the mp3 algorithms in the US, and thus are entitled to demand a license fee for people who use their technology. They don't have any such patent here, and so they don't get to charge license fees.

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