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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 03:26 PM EDT |
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Steve Jobs felt Android was a 'stolen
product'
A legitimate case of infringement or a vendetta in honor
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 03:28 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 04:03 PM EDT |
I agree what Apple is doing is disgusting. I don't like it either. I agree the
patent system is completely out of control. I agree that the current
environment is bad and little guys have no chance to even enter the market, much
less compete. That's not the point of my post.
My point is the tone of the stories lately. It's not what's being said, it's
HOW it's being said. I feel it's moved too far from where it started and too
many of PJ's posts end in rants. I think she's a great writer with a good mind
and a lot of good things to say, but style is as important as substance.
I like Groklaw, I like it a lot. I want to keep coming here to understand the
details behind the soundbites I get elsewhere, but the writing needs to be more
balanced -- not completely impartial, just a *little* more fair. Calling out a
legal tactic as sneaky or aggressive or just mean is fine, I like that stuff.
But big companies are made up of many, many people who do many, many things. No
company is entirely good or entirely bad and it's painful to read stories that
damn an entire organization over a legal filing. I don't want to see Groklaw
become an RMS fanboi site or an anti-big-business site -- there are already
plenty of those. When I see sentences like "Apple is dead to me now",
how do I know I can trust the next story about Apple to be fair? If they filed
something that helped FOSS somehow, or released some cool new software under the
GPL, would that even get mentioned? I'd like to think so, but now I can't be
sure.
That's why I wrote what I did; I hope this trend will be reversed before it
pushes readers away. As a longtime reader, I felt compelled to say something
instead of simply leaving.
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