Apple and Microsoft will soon kill all (Google's) opensource projects which commercial companies adopt with trival patents like double-click, drag-drop, touch to interact, push button to turn on etc... and Apple Samsung verdict is the starting point.
The US court (as it appears in this case and other cases) will always favour Apple and Microsoft killing all opensource competition legally and practically banning open source software. In the mean time Google continues to be a spectator and an open target similar to GNU and wildebeest. The best that you can get from Google is bland responses like -- “The court of appeals will review both infringement and the validity of the patent claims. Most of these don’t relate to the core Android operating system and several are being re-examined by the U.S. Patent Office. The mobile industry is moving fast and all players–including newcomers–are building upon ideas that have been around for decades. We work with our partners to give consumers innovative and affordable products, and we don’t want anything to limit that.” It appears, as good as Google is in collaborating with opensource communities to create good products and also profiting from it; it's equally bad when it comes to combating the law. Google is an open target to various companies but it itself targets none. Apple vs Samsung was the perfect case to review the case of software patents and expect some judgement from it, but it appears as always, Google is a spectator with another bland opinion like everyone else. In case they don't know how bad are software patents -- http://delogics.blogspot.com/2012/08/software-patents-are-they-evil_584.html and maybe, do something about it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/xxNox63totkJ. 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-discuss?hl=en.
