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| Authored by: PJ on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 12:22 PM EDT |
Abusive how? It's Acer, if one believes any
of this, that was being abusive by accepting
special relationship status and then ignoring
any responsibilities.
And I note Acer says it still will be doing the
other phone, after it discusses this more with
Google. So it must be some kind of contract
situation, and if you sign on the dotted line,
you are responsible for what you signed, and
apparently Acer realizes it.
The fact that this is being presented as news
of Google being evil when NOBODY knows the
details is what should clue you in that this
is part of the ongoing smear campaign against
Google. Every day there's a new negative story,
and all arrows point to Microsoft.
When I first started doing Groklaw, and the
threats started, I asked someone who had long
dealings with Microsoft whether they kill people
or not. He said not that he knew of, but what
they do is kill your reputation. That's what I
suspect is happening now to Google.
Did you notice that even Judge Alsup seemed to
be influenced by the negative press? And none
of it was true at all. When he dug into it,
there was nothing there. Yet there had been
articles in the press about Google's wide
support base that it allegedly paid for to
give it support, and Oracle played that card,
to their shame. But it was a lie, both in the
press and in the courtroom.
So it's a very big smear campaign, one that
has had some success. How many times have you
seen article with "Don't be evil" used cynically
to present the idea that Google is being evil?
But where is it? Seriously, what is so evil?
They've made some mistakes, paid for them, but
that's not the same as being deliberately evil.
Now, look at Microsoft. Look at the patent deal
with Nokia and MOSAID to apparently avoid having
to restrict royalties on standards patents, despite
promises earlier made, while simulaneously accusing
companies with other standards patents of overcharging
when the price is comparable? I mean, is that
evil or is that evil?
ANd they have Congress in this and antitrust
bodies. It's an amazingly big lie.
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