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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I don't have a list. Just considering that MS patents EVERYTHING I have a tough time believing they don't have patents over at least SOME DirectX things that Wine has created an implementation for, etc.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

WINE doesn’t need to implement anything that DirectX does, it just needs to translate those calls into the equivalent Linux ones. Linux does all the actual work; and if Microsoft had a patent for “drawing pixels on a screen” they’d have shown that hand by now.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Sure, but patents cover methods and implementations. If Wine gets a cleanroom spec that says "when you put in these values, we need these pixels out" then they are free to write their own implementation not covered by the patent.