[Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

Mon Jun 1 16:27:38 UTC 2009

Hoi,
Lars PLEASE read the license before you comment.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/6/1 Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>

> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
> > 2009/5/31 Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
> > > The idea of showing diffs since the user last viewed the same
> > > wave, is very similar to Flagged revisions.
> >
> > How is it in any way like Flagged revisions?
>
> From the video, the user interface color marked the differences in
> the wave since I last looked at it.  I thought of this as the diff
> since the last flagged (approved) version.  It's a collaboratively
> edited document with a linear version history (like RCS or wiki),
> but with bookmarks (flags) for certain previous versions.
>
> I didn't say it's an equivalent, but some ideas are familiar.
>
> The mention of a "patent license" should make us worried.  Does
> Google, for example, have a patent on the animated playback?
> Should we need a patent for "flagged revisions" to counter that?
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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