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task #225: IPIX Shuts Down Free Software Developer - Again

Submitter:  Hugo Gayosso <hgayosso>
Submitted:  -
   
 
Category:  Patent Database Should Start On:  Thu 07 Jun 2001 12:00:00 AM UTC
Should be Finished on:  Sun 10 Jun 2001 12:00:00 AM UTC Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  stolle Percent Complete:  5 (Error - Not Found)
Open/Closed:  Open Effort:  0.00

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IPIX Shuts Down Free Software Developer - Again
[ Patents ] Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 06, @10:01AM
from the look-around-you-gingerly dept.

l-ascorbic writes: "In 1999, Internet Pictures Corporation (IPIX)
started persecuting anyone who made software to produce 360°
images. They succeeded in forcing Professor Helmut Dersch, the creator
of the GPL Panorama Tools to remove certain functionality from his
software. Well, they're at it again. They have now forced him to shut
his website. IPIX hold several US patents on remapping fisheye images,
and first went after US sites that linked to the PanoTools site. Prof
Dersch says he may now have to distribute his software using tricks
similar to those needed by GIMP to avoid the Unisys GIF patents."
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Hugo Gayosso <hgayosso>
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