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| Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 06:15 AM EDT |
Having been involved in patents (as a patentee) in both the US, UK and European
processes for over 30 years I have been fascinated by all of the goings on
reported here. I have learnt much, about the patent process and about the minds
of people, technical, commercial and neither. Mostly what I have learnt is that
commercial entities have no moral code, that doing the decent thing eventually
wins out and that fans don't like their heroes mocked, however much they deserve
it.
I was never anti-apple, nor pro-apple. I was a linux user from very early days
as I couldn't afford the sort of Unix boxes at home that I used at work, but
mostly I used Dos and put up with it. However over time I came to appreciate the
openness and honesty of the free software community and would now admit to being
a fan (the above stricture therefore probably applies to me). However in this
instance I'm not at all sure where you find issue with my analogy. Motorola have
accused Apple of taking away their IP (although I don't necessarily believe it
should be patentable, it IS patented until those patents are invalidated) and
not paying either the full or reduced price. Apple have said "we don't need
to pay". I'm pretty sure that's what I wrote.
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