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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 04:33 PM EDT |
Cheating only works in a corrupt society. If US eventually grow up the cheats
will tumble. If it doesn't grow up it will tumble.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 11:21 PM EDT |
...I get the impression Microsoft's way of doing business is
admired in the United States of America as capitalism at its
finest, in the best tradition established by companies such
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 01:35 PM EDT |
Is there a moment when this becomes a matter of criminal law,
like "bedrog"?
Suppose I am a landowner and I remove intentionally the
signs around
my (non-intellectual) property. There will be
some register where everybody can
look it up. But I know
this will mislead people and it will allow me to collect
more money from trespassers. Or worse. It is a kind of trap.
I do this because
I know I can use the trespassing later to
harm those people. I known the kind
of scamps do this kind
of things in television series. Not the ones that win in
the
end.☺
Microsoft set up quite a show here. Probably keeping a
safe distance from the reality. And at the same time is
keeping secret the
patents that it things are or will be
infringed. Being itself one of the causes
of the supposed
infringement.
What public interest can possibly be
served, even
theoreticly, by using patents in that way? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 02:06 PM EDT |
I hope the OEM's that will produce Firefox OS products did
organize themselves.
I guess a number of patents used to intimidate Android OEM's
in paying will be irrelevant for that new system. And some
people at Microsoft are searching for replacements.
Think a nice defense could be agreeing that nobody should
strengthen Microsoft position by signing a non disclosure
agreement. Nor with any other proxy of troll. Some
compensation for disclosure could help those who are picked
out first. It would serve the whole group.
And everybody if it, in the end, makes being busy with you
own products less expensive compared being busy with the
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| Authored by: symbolset on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 12:12 AM EDT |
For one thing word gets out now where it didn't before. We have the BSD
settlement and the Comes Collection here for examples of how it used to take
forever and the lag could be used for marketing advantage. Now when you put
your agent in control of a major smartphone competitor people who know publish
within hours. When you have a reputation for being a jerk like Oracle people
know that if you buy Sun you're going to ruin Open Office, Java and MySQL and
start forking immediately. If you give a troll patents to go after your
competitors the word is out that very day.
In a world this open not acting
like a jerk can be advantageous even if it's not your nature.
Evil needs
darkness to operate correctly and darkness has come scarce these days. Most
especially due to efforts of folks like PJ. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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