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[darkdragon <darkdragon-001@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Octavian Damiean <odamiean@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Cláudio Sampaio <patola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Thibaut Brandscheid <randaltor@xxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> I just watched this video about a one text line high software keyboard
>>> that seems to work and thought you might be interested seeing it too.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niV2KCkKmRw
>>>
>>
>> Nice but did they patent the concept? If they did, that would present an
>> additional obstacle for implementing it.
>>
>
> That's a good point. We should probably approach them directly.​​
>

If you have a look at their page where they explain their technology [1],
they state at the bottom that they have a patent portfolio for their stuff.

Nevertheless, I think someone (perhaps best would be @canonical.com) should
send them an email and offer them free standard implementation. Would be
nice to have the choice by default :)

[1] http://minuum.com/our-technology/