[LAU] ot-ish: musical scales question

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh and make sure you don't violate any Apple patents... other than my
> being listed in the patent (I'm still trying to figure out why),  the
> patent below is the most ridiculous piece of crap I've seen since IBM
> patented object oriented programming....
>
> http://www.patents.com/Method-apparatus-managing-windows-7739604.html

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--p