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Re: Multi-user Debian



At Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:22:40 -0500,
Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:56, csj wrote:
> > At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT),
> > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > 
> > > I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box,
> > > but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard
> > > and a mouse.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > It is described here:
> > > 
> > > http://startx.times.lv/
> > > http://www.schuldei.org/aivils/
> > > http://varna.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/linux/how-to.html
> > > 
> > > This has got to be the best idea since Linux and
> > > Debian...
> > 
> > Hurry! Patent it! ;-)
> 
> Too late.  Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of technology
> was popular back in the mid-80s.

That's for "DOS".  We're talking about a system for "Linux"
users.  Just because something's obvious doesn't mean it can't be
patented.



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