On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:03:10PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 03:16:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Huh? What? XOR cursor? What's that? > > I haven't read the patent (legalese gives me headaches), but I know that > "XOR" is an abbreviation for "eXclusive Overwrite Rights", a variant > of DRM. It enforces an author's moral rights by not allowing non-approved > cursor shapes to be used to point at protected intellectual property. > When a user moves a cursor over a window containing protected content, > the display manager sends the cursor shape to microsoft^W the content > vendor's representative for inspection, and disallows the motion until > it receives approval. This way, serious documentaries are protected > from being seen with banana-shaped cursors hovering over them, and similar > abuses of the content provider's reputation and artistic integrity. > > To the best of my knowledge, the X server still lacks this important > functionality. Ah, yes, thanks for explaining this. I concur, the X server does indeed lack this functionality. Glad to see there's no problem here. /me clears throat loudly and glares at the audience -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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