Found this in an old copyright notice from 1993:
These images are not for use with the Microsoft Windows environment. Using these patterns in a Windows environment consitutes a copyright violation.
Someone clearly didn’t like Windows.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Where was this found? 🤔 What a treasure trove 😅 #Windows #sucks
@prologic@twtxt.net In a collection of (old) wallpapers that I downloaded a while ago. The source appears to be this:
http://www.avernus.com/desktop-textures/copyright.html
But the following addendum does not exist yet in the COPYRIGHT file on my disk. 😅
This restriction does not apply to use in World-Wide Web pages served from or viewed on Windows machines.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hmm wow! 😱
its sad all the links off that page are broken.