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Quote: Originally Posted by ruddy Even Judge Alsup said Schwartz's statements had no bearing on Google's lack of a license. That was a DOA argument propagated by those from planet Groklaw. The point is that the guy who ran the company that de…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark Hmmm. Maybe I'm not remembering the details correctly but I though Oracle accused Googs of lifting swaths code instead of just element names. They accused them of this, but they folded on those claims. T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc Well before they even get into touch, I've been waiting for years now for a company to come out with an affordable and language-adaptable keyboard that simply lights up the keys according to language sele…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ruddy Nope, Sun made its money licensing Java APIs, they made their money doing exactly what Google didn't license Java for. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57420304-94/former-sun-ceo-says-googles-android-didnt-n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PhilBoogie He meant this: From which the term 'gorilla arm' comes from. The iPhone is designed to be used with a single hand, hence their seemingly opposed stance to create a larger iPhone as we won't be able…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PhilBoogie 1) Like Steve said: "touch devices need to be horizontal". Guess the touchscreen laptop manufacturers haven't seen that keynote. I don't really understand this statement. Why do touch devices need to be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro He has no need to make a counter argument as no argument was made only rambling, senseless statements from a mind afflicted by Google's reality distortion field. Forgive me if I'm missing a joke or a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark I don't think you can lift copywrited material verbatim and imbed it into your works. It's not a review or critique. It's a misleading view. Let's say I wrote a book on cats. I label each chapter with t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maestro64 To your point, Android or the code behind in maybe placed on any number of devices, however, the question is the code being used as intended, the answer here is no, why because as it has been pointed on i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Brilliant! Let's spend billions of dollars to provide internet to people who can't pay us. Where is step three? Step 3. These people are able to dramatically improve their quality of life and participate i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton The similarities were removed at Steve Jobs' insistence. According to author Fred Vogelstein, Jobs demanded that Google remove UI elements that mimicked the UI of the iPhone from the initial version…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ruddy Why would they? Microsoft made CLI an open standard in order to make projects like Mono possible. If MS hadn't wanted to do that, there would be no Mono today. Different companies employ different business mode…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RoundaboutNow Also, you can get an OTDR for less than $10K. Although some of those Fluke kits can get quite a bit pricier. It was my own stupid mistyping in the first place. I was saying 5 figures, not 6. I'm dum…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I won't bothering reading the rest of it but I will say this: OMG, Samsung's trying to patent the set-top box. Obvious! Prior art! It's just a rectangle. They're trying to avoid competition with patents - they…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTac Isn't most fiber 50 and 62.5 micron? Would a common fusion splicer even work on this 80 micron Thunderbolt fiber? I haven't spliced anything in years. I'll message a colleague and get specs on their equi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley Re. being an Apple competitor, I'm talking about the market they were targetting. BlackBerry were on top of the enterprise, with some minor encroachment on the consumer market, and I believe Android was conc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ruddy Alsup's first epic fail is in elevating interoperability, an argument which has occasionally been used for a fair use defense of infringement, to be an excuse to deny copyrightability. He simply made this up. T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost 'GUI' refers to the User Interface—it's what the OS looks like. Early Android was designed to copy Blackberry, but when the iPhone came out, they quickly realised they would have to copy Apple, so …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan Developers won't go Android first if iOS is where the money is to be made. We've already seen stats that show iOS customers use their devices as a smartphone more than Android customers do. iOS customers do…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ruddy Calling it nonsense is only admitting you don't understand it. I explained it in detail above, so please see that reply. I can quote Judge Alsup's summation in which he goes through the legal framework for …