wei@scam.berkeley.EDU (Pei Y. Wei) (04/23/91)
April, 1991
Software Announcement: Viola
I am pleased to announce the preview release of a highly manipulable
interactive-media authoring tool. The interpretive nature of Viola
enables it to be highly interactive: users can directly, or through
scripts, create and modify objects.
For those familiar with Apple's HyperCard(tm), Viola is the closest
thing to it for the UNIX/X11-Window environment.
Viola binary and source are freely available via anonymous FTP on
scam.berkeley.edu (128.32.138.1). Look for the README file in the
directory "src/local/viola".
Pei Y. Wei
Director, Experimental Computing Facility
University of California, Berkeley
Email : wei@xcf.Berkeley.EDU
Physical : Experimental Computing Facility (XCF)
199B Cory Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) (05/02/91)
Paul Heckel has a patent on the card user interface for hypertext systems. He has defended it succesfully against Apple, and is going after IBM. Does Viola infringe on this patent? Please note that patent infringement can occur not merely when a device is sold, but also when it is used in-house. Until this issue is cleared up, downloading and bringing up Viola may expose your organization to a patent infringement lawsuit. No, we're not going to start the software patent argument again. We just went through it a month ago. Please don't follow this up with rants for or against software patents. Please. Lance Norskog You heard me the first time. Don't even think about it.