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10.3: Switch apps without showing or using the dock
Authored by: benfsmith on Oct 25, '03 06:04:41PM

FWIW, the guy who wrote Lite Switch X for Proteron was a student at BYU. He was hired after graduation this past year by Apple. He would never say exactly what he has been working on there, but I'm sure that this was his contribution.



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10.3: Switch apps without showing or using the dock
Authored by: encro on Oct 26, '03 08:25:59AM

There seems to be a lack of truth in your post.

Proteron posted an open letter to Apple regarding 3rd Party idea theft:

http://www.proteron.com/liteswitchx/openmemo.php

IMO, I disagree with Samuel Caughron (Proteron) on his comments regarding LiteSwitch in contrast tosomething like Karelia's Watson.

Where Sherlock's focus was changed completely to emulate a revolutionary solution already available from Karelia. Something like LiteSwitch did not require much imagination given the similarity to a function that has been on Windows for quite a while.

Should Microsoft sue Proteron for stealing ideas that advantage the competion? Ok, being a bit silly on that point.

The point is Mac OS X is still such a new OS that is too close to natural progression for Proteron to be disapointed with for using a similar feature.



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Proteron's still #1
Authored by: Thom on Oct 26, '03 04:53:50PM

How long did I have to wait for Panther to come out while not having the app switching power that I was accustomed to?

I had LiteSwitch for OS 9 back in the day. I thought it was a pretty nice implementation of Windows' app-switching behavior -- and would like to point out that while the concept may have originated with Microsoft, these guys still had to code it from scratch. They've done a lot of hard work and added many features since that original Classic version.

After a brief affair with Keyboard Maestro (the 'launch favorite apps' feature was nice, until I switched to using LaunchBar), I went back to Proteron's version because it was the most powerful and well thought-out. And still is... I'll continue to use it in Panther too.



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OT: BYU
Authored by: terceiro on Oct 26, '03 11:40:20AM

A Mac user at BYU? The horror! Cecil will put a stop to that... ;)

On topic: I don't think Apple owes Proteron any money. It's not like they swiped the code... and even Proteron doesn't say as much. So they _look_ the same -- that's not the same thing as a blatant swipe.

However, if they put in, for example, the nifty fast-app-launch of LaunchBar (of which there is no existing precedent in the OS) without credit, that would be another thing. That would be bad.



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