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Floid wrote:

... I take it AInc's actions to collect from MS for context-menu behavior weren't successful? ;)


As I understand it, Commodore-Amiga held a patent that covered the opening up of a "Drop down menu" when the right mouse button is held down.

Apple were unaffected since they didn't use a right mouse button, and M$ used context sensitive menus that only required a right click rather than the button to be held down... thus the patent was pretty useless... except against AROS and MorphOS... but it expired years ago.