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| Authored by: BobinAlaska on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 02:31 AM EDT |
Motorola was forced to defend itself and is using whatever ammunition it has. I
may be wrong but I don't believe they fired first only returned fire. I do agree
that software patents are in dire need of extinction. I did a lot of these
things in assembler language in the dark ages.
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Bob Helm, North Las Vegas, NV
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 05:45 AM EDT |
It's deplorable, yes, but:
Hitting someone in the face is deplorable too, but if that prevents him from
sticking a knife in you, you'd do it.
Fighting back is never pretty. But it's unavoidable.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 05:52 AM EDT |
One of them "winning" will have vastly different consequences
to the other "winning". Many people care about this.
When both sides are using stupid weapons, pick which you
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| Authored by: cjk fossman on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:23 AM EDT |
Since you posted anonymously it's impossible to tell whether
you're new here and really don't know that PJ has answered
that stupid question about 3,000 times.
So let me lay it out for you. Unequivocally, software needs
to get a divorce from patents. There should be no software
patents, period.
That said, as long as we have software patents, FOSS users
should be able to use them as defensive weapons.
And by the way, do you know how many of Motorola's SEPs are
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 10:04 AM EDT |
Whatever Motorola is doing doesn't make these Apple patents any less ridiculous.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 12:22 PM EDT |
Google purchased Motorola to pressure Microsoft and Apple to cross license or
failing that to back the heck off.
hasn't worked yet, but I'm betting if Glass takes off Google will make sure
Apple and Microsoft are stuck outside until they sign on a dotted line and
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 12:58 PM EDT |
"There aren't 10 million users of the Galaxy S4 (yet). Samsung has shipped
that number to carriers, etc."
Yes, exactly the same way Apple counts their sales. If it's sold, it's sold.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 01:00 PM EDT |
"So must be meritless, so should be disparaged too."
Motorola invented the cell phone. Their patents aren't "meritless".
"Rectangular with rounded corners" is.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 02:49 PM EDT |
| Be careful... Apple counts unsold units as a sale too, my
friend:
Cached CNN
Article
Original CNN
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