"Ann W. Harrison" wrote:

> Aage Johansen wrote:
>
>>
>> Wasn't "right mouse-click and context menus" first used by Borland?
>
> The best of the Borland patents that I know of is the patent on the
> scheme for representing multi-level collations - which really irked Dave
> Schnepper because it came from a different group, some years after he'd
> used it in Firebird, and the other guy got a patent bonus.

Does it mean anything to Firebird ? E.g. can the Borland guy come
and claim some fees from Firebird developers/users ?

Ivan