Credits
Currently, the
big software companies are collecting thousands of patents, most of them of
trivial and self evident content. Clearly, the aim is to push universities,
small companies, free developers out market as soon as the European community
decides that software and computer procedures can be patented. It could be the
end of open source and free software. Neither me, nor my university have the
means to defend against trivial software claims in court even if our success
would be sure. Please support our fight against software patents.
I wish to express my gratitude to the following persons and institutions.
- The Catholic University of Eichstätt for giving me the opportunity
to work at this program.
- Dr. Hans Fischer of the Catholic
University of Eichstätt for encouraging me to finish the Java version, and make it even better than the Windows
version.
- Sun for the Java system.
- Martin Acosta for the translation to
Spanish.
- Wolfgang Lindner from the University of Duisburg for his proposals and his support.
- Olaf Knapp for his support since the Windows version.
- Alexandre R Soares for the Portuguese translation.
- Gabriel Cordano for the FIG format.
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Enrico Pontorno
for the Italian translation.
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Humberto Jose Bortolossi for a Brazilian translation.
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Niels Johnsen for the Danish translation.
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Stanislave Stenweder for the slowenian translation.
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David Eisenberg for the PNG compression in open source.