Was interesting to be involved....

I dug through a lot of old bits I have, and was able to give the counsel working on the case lots of good explosives to blow up the patents.

The patents being litigated were intended to just protect Xerox Rooms; they tried to apply them to multiple desktops. As the suit was pressed, the prior art was very to provide (once I found the right bits for each claim). One of the advantages we had was the the code and email was open and therefore no copyright problems. This made the X prior art particularly nice, though, of course, lots of other prior art also existed. Not to mention since the patents were about Xerox rooms, we didn't infringe (the double win). We had the code, line for line, and did not have to rely on descriptions or memory.

So once I understood what was needed, it wasn't terribly difficult (in this case).

Note that I do *not* know if others provided ammunition as well; others may well have contributed to the victory. It would be interesting to get to read a transcript of the trial, having been on the information providing side.

My thanks to Red Hat and Novell for standing up for community, and to all of you to have been part of X's long history...

Moral of the story: I had to go back to files I have from 1984; it was 2009. Never throw anything away....