It's a bad sign for apple's long-term sustainability. It's a _very_ bad sign if this move was to suppress the competition instead of as an expression of an honest (but misguided; it's true but that's how the world works) intuition that the current situation "isn't far" and that apple invented this whole new phone paradigm and everyone else is running with it.
Companies which win by bullying soon cease to have the ability to win by having the better product; the creative minds that let you make the better product start disliking the policies and leave. I'm ecstatic though that this is re-re-re-re-re-starting the discussion on how screwed up the software patent system really is. On Mar 6, 9:14 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/6/10 08:59 , Wildam Martin wrote: > > > In general patents were invented to somehow protect innovative > > people/companies investing years of research to create something new. > > I can understand that idea. There are two problems with that: > > > 1. people try to trick that (patent things they didn't either start > > research on so just asking the patent for an idea etc) > > > 2. Patent offices allowing to patent things that are not worth > > patenting or either already exist (not necessarily with a patent). > > > This is, what makes it useless. > > Exactly. It's unfortunate that there are mostly extreme positions with > respect to this topic. On one side, the absurd easiness in granting > patents; on the other, the attempts to counter this bad policy have > been only the plea for a complete ban of software patents (I'm > referring to a plea that some time ago was made e.g. in the EU, I > think lead by the FSF). We should rather ask for a reform of the > criterion used to grant them. In the same attitude, while I think that > many claimed Apple patents are bullshit, I'd never say that Apple > never did anything innovative. The truth is often in the middle. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuSDs4ACgkQeDweFqgUGxdjrwCgky/RDXv1CyvY+CNSwDhXbYZm > pPkAn36EZWwDz9Dy3t6DnWOs4TtIE1DV > =9VV6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
