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Although it is practically dead project, please remember that we developers were very serious about this kind of UI -- the usage of 3D-ness in 2D-based desktop environment.
And please remember that this demo was given back in 2003 (well before OS X Leopard and Vista).
We were really really serious...
I'm totally ashamed that I couldn't drive the project successfully. But back then, Sun started became very very tight in terms of financial, and it was tough for us too... (lame excuses)
2 years ago 14
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Apple will patent this in a few years and say they invented it.... sort of like multi-touch and friends.
1 year ago 10
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It's GPL software, couldn't some voluntary team pick it up and help revive it?
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@jammaconnection This was made in 2003
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NO SOUND??? USE 240P( only cos your computer can barely handle 320p how'd u expect it to be with SOUND?!)
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[*] SUN, we miss you.
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@vinko plagiarize is entirely the wrong word. In case you're jaded, building in the best parts of other pieces of work is a GOOD thing. And if it infringes on another company's IP then they'll pay for it (be it through court order, or licensing fees). But if the end result is the consumer gets an amazing product why hate?
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@vinko please refrain from posting OS specific comments .... As you have already done?
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@javier29m90 hahaha nice one
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@vinko Only to clarify who steals what in what fashion:
goo.gl {slash} 6Gdd
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RIP Sun... A nice company with great software, now the corpse of Sun is raped by the bastard necrophile zombies from Oracle. RIP OpenSolaris, I hope Illumos will gain some success.
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omg, Jon Schwartz looks like every IT manager in the world rolled into one!
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kigawman, to answer you question. Apple's CoverFlow did not copy any of SUN's Looking Glass. That technology was acquired by Apple in 2005 to incorporate in iTunes, and iTunes Store. It is only in 2007 that Apple publicly showed off the CoverFlow technology in the upcoming version of Mac OS X (10.5).
vinko 4 years ago
Unfortunately, I do not really want to get into this OS battle, but only to clarify. Microsoft's Windows Vista's "Windows Flip 3D" is an obvious copy of Looking Glass, but then that is not new for Microsoft as they often plagiarize other competitors.
vinko 4 years ago 2