:rolleyes:
The irony is neither do you... As an actual University Professor that teaches copyright and patent law allow me to educate you.
Kickstart Workbench Hand Image: That is a picture folks and is copyrighted by somebody.
Agreed, that does need to be changed. It' needs to be a claw and not a hand.

Also, you can't patent the idea that a message is displayed asking for boot media but your code better be very different from that of the source.
Didn't the SCO law suit disaster settle that issue? As long as it's not common (C&P) code, there shouldn't be much of an issue for the courts to decide on.
Right Mouse Click to Display a Menu: I believe RJ Mical owns the patent for this. Using a mouse button to offer options to the user isn't patentable but the Amiga's Right Click Show Hidden Menu certainly is...
It was by C= and it's 20 years expired years ago (2006?) which is why AROS went back to right mouse click.