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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Again, a ridiculous statement not backed up by any information. Are you really unaware of the arguments against software patents? For example, different programmers can come up with similar algorithms, and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella NEWS FLASH: APPLE BLOCKING SOFTWARE UPDATES FOR ALL NON-APPLE SOFTWARE The point here is that if Apple has patented software updates and are enforcing it to prevent an open standard from using meth…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross This notion that patents of any kind are evil is so ridiculous. Patents in general may not be evil. Software patents are definitely evil, though. Quote: Software is no different than hardware. An invent…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Are you and others really suggesting that SW one creates should not be protected in any way? This is not about software anyone created. This is about a patent, a document describing a theoretical method. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross It's not that simple. First all participants must agree that any particular patent is includable. Working group or not, the law doesn't allow members to strip any owner of IP of their properly defined rights. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wheelhot Not exactly, if there is no patent, what is stopping company A from doing an exact copy of Company B. Would you love to see all the money you spend on R&D ended up being copied by another company? I don't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by kresh Somehow I don't think we are getting the full story. Apple's membership in the W3C's consortium does not give the consortium unlimited access to every patent that Apple holds. No one claimed that it did. But …
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Looks like a lot of people are missing something important: Apple's patent is a SOFTWARE PATENT. Software patents are evil. Patents in general are not necessarily evil, but software patents are.