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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 10:02 AM EDT |
I remember watching a a documentary on the Vikings once
where an Archaeologist excavating a Viking settlement in
York, UK was commenting on the finds. He said "It is amazing
how many padlocks you find in Viking settlements, which you
don't find in Anglo Saxon settlements. The Vikings seem to
have been paranoid about people stealing things from them -
maybe because Vikings spent so much time raiding and
stealing things from others, they expected the locals to
steal things back from them".
Kind of makes you think about Apple's claims of IP theft of
IP stolen from the public domain (that's you and me) through
sleight of USPTO submission (like like rectangles and
rounded corners, bounceback, pinch to zoom etc.), and then
prosecuting others for using what belongs to all of us in
the first place.
Also reminds you of Microsoft's and Apple's complaints about
Google's so called anti-trust violations with FRAND patents,
when Microsoft and Apple are the gross violators of patents
being misused for anti-competitive reasons, and Google is
simply defending itself.
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