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David Gelernter is a CS professor at Yale, an author, and as far as I can tell, not really a scumbag. But who knows, he did name his coordination language Linda, because "'Ada' is to 'Ada Lovelace' as 'Linda' is to 'Linda Lovelace'". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_%28coordination_language%... He's got quite a few essays on edge.org of some repute, including this one from 2000 in which he eerily and in detail predicts the move to event stream-based information presentation. Quantity, not quality, he says. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759763 In any case, all the Mirror Worlds patent trial documents are available here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759843 From the summary there: The document display lawsuit involved Apple's Cover Flow, Time Machine, and Spotlight displays. Plaintiff Mirror Worlds LLC alleges that Defendant Apple, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,006,227 and 6,638,313 B1 entitled "Document Stream Operating System" and 6,725,427 B2 entitled "Document Stream Operating System with Document Organizing and Display Facilities," 6,768,999 B2 entitled "Enterprise, Stream-Based Information Management System". |