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What does the source code have to do with defending Apple's patents? | 306 comments | Create New Account

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What does the source code have to do with defending Apple's patents?

Authored by: stegu on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 12:48 PM EDT

Because in that super secret source code, Google
just might have written in a comment:

// This was stolen from Apple, but don't tell
// them and we just might get away with it.

No. Kidding. Seeing how Android source gets
published openly after a while, Google's
underwear ought to be clean, so to speak.
But source code does tell you some things
that binaries don't, like if the allegedly
infringing code is in individual apps or
in the OS-level GUI libraries.
Asking for source code (under seal) does not
seem totally unreasonable to me in this case.

The picture Google paints of Apple's past
actions, however, is not a pretty one. It
tells of a serial litigator set on causing
as much trouble and expenses as possible for
their opponent during discovery, all to make
the opponent cave in to the pressure and
pay the bully to go away. That's not necessarily
the reason they do it, but that is how I read
Google's perception of it.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

What about patent source code? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 05:47 PM EDT
What does the source code have to do with defending Apple's patents? - Authored by: nematoad on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 04:16 AM EDT

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