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Conceptually yes. But there are huge differences in the way they are enforced and in what they apply to. Without pointing out those distinctions, you just creating FUD and clouding the issue at hand. FUDing the issues is how the media generates thei…
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That is like saying that a car and a motorcycle are motorized vehicles and there are no significant differences between them and, as such, is plain old B.S. I understand you apparently don't like Google, but parroting one (biased) side of a compl…
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The Apple patent dates I saw (in the news articles) were 2008 and newer. The Linux kernel is a lot older than that and would be prior-art invalidating Apple's patents in that case. Quote: Originally Posted by Gwydion In the suit there are pate…
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Try reading a book that pertains to the subject such as the history of Commodore. It is common knowledge that both Apple and Microsoft got access to and copied features to technology invented by Xerox, HP, and others. Whether it was patented yet …
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Didn't say they were - yet. However, both Apple and Google use GPL3 licensed code within their software and that license is what contains the clause. By filing a patent suit against features in Android (if that is indeed what they are going after) t…
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Of which you clearly know nothing about. That case is based on Copyright, not Patent law such as this suit is. With Google Books, Google was/is attempting to create a valuable, public good, store of knowledge by creating a search engine that woul…
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Actually, it's not. It shows a lack of knowledge of how the open source community works. Open source programmers could care less about patents. If a legal case determines that a feature they developed is infringing, they just modify it and move o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse One of the problems with Google is that they don't respect the law, particularly IP law, and act like it doesn't apply to them. You have proof to back up that libelous statement? Or are you just being a t…
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Sure there is. As patent trolls often do, they wait until a company has made a lot of money with their patents (knowingly or not) and then go after them when there is a lot of money to go after. Obviously this is not the case with Apple and Google a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by reliason But I doubt the cross licensing will happen. At least not until the iPad and iPhone 4.0 are well established. Exactly the point I raised about Apple raising hell in the press to disrupt competition. Then t…
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If you believe everything you read in the press, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. "Patent Troll" has a modern, broad interpretation that covers companies that use patents to squash competition. You're definition is correct, but is only on…
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No, you're not. The key term you missed there was "copyright infringement lawsuit". Again, not patent law and a different kind of IP. Quote: Originally Posted by reliason AHA! I was right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_C...ft_Corpora…
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You bring up a interesting point that I wonder if Apple's lawyers have considered. By attacking an open source project (if that is indeed the case here and it's not about the App Store integration) Apple is violating the licensing terms of several o…
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The iPhone came out with a phone with an icon-based application manager interface. Blackberry had such an interface well before Apple on a cell phone and I'm sure others before them. There is nothing revolutionary about that at all, just fancier gra…
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Wrong. You can choose to litigate your patents at any time during the period they are in effect. There is no provision that says you have to maintain them through vigilance. You are thinking of trademarks which is a different IP beast altogether. …
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No, patents were created to protect the small (read single person) inventor from large corporations. Unfortunately our patent system is so utterly abused at this point that it mainly just a lawyers playground and profit center. Apple is really sh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kiwee The most solid piece of machinery I ever owned. No one does hardware like Apple. Quote: Originally Posted by tpf1952 If you spend seven days a week working and hauling a laptop, it might as well be the bes…
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Well, at least it pulls it from the BIOS on normal PCs. Apparently you can play games with the software BIOS used on Macs with kernel extensions: http://www.00235.insanelymac.do1.uk....p/t108277.html So I would say that makes this article pure…
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I was originally going to say that not a very good score for a quad-core i7, until I realized it's not a quad-core. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense that they'd put another dual-core processor in a Macbook Pro. Definitely the Macbook and maybe t…
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You're quoting a myth. There was an old NPD analyst report that gave a large percentage of sales to Macs, however Adobe has never separated out their percentages of sales to any platform so, as with most analyst reports, it's just a bunch of hyperbo…