The US is in need of some major copyright reform. Apple should of never been granted the patient on multi-touch interfaces, as its the next natural progression from a single touch interface.
On Jan 27, 2:05 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > The most intelligent solution would be disabling it in the firmware > shipped in the US. Most handst manufacturers are based in the far east, > T-Mobile can ship them to whomever they want outside the US, and > developers working outside the US can continue to work on it. > > The same approach was used with encryption in pre-2006 where I could > order a VPN server from any number of European or far east websites > which, technically, if I took into the US or left the US with I could be > charged as an arms smuggler under US law. > > If your country has laws that prevent you getting a technology you > should talk to the politicians about changing the law, not try and > remove the functionality from devices shipped to those of us in the free > world. > > Al. > > > > JP wrote: > > I speculate one of the reasons that multi-touch was not in the Android > > "package" because the patent was pending. I predict that noone outside > > Apple will touch multi-touch even with a 10ft. pole (pun intended). > > > The bigger issue in my view is gesture-based scrolling, which *is* > > part of Android and which happens to be claimed in the patent. > > Somebody enlighten us how this is not going to be a battle down the > > road? > > > On Jan 27, 9:52 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It's only a US patent and the world is a big place. > > >> All it means is that if anyone has a Multi-Touch innovation and wants to > >> play it safe will stay out of the US market. > > >> Welcome to America, the land of the free, well, as long as you have the > >> right lawyer that is. > > >> Al. > > >> robotissues wrote: > > >>> via Slashdot .. > > >>>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F27%2F024242&from=rss > > >>> Does this really put the kabosh on multitouch on Android for the next > >>> 18 years? Anyone out there have any thoughts on this? > > >>>www.smileproject.com > > >> -- > >> ====== > >> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > >> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > >> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > >> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > >> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > >> subsidiaries. > > -- > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
