As it has been said, the US patent law is the culprit. But we can't only
contest US laws, that is a somewhat complex and slow process. We can
contest corporates that live on such kind of patents. Apple in this
case. This should be a mass-targeted campaign involving also the man in
the street (of course, it would cost money, but also lobbying against
patents costs money; I suppose customer associations and various FLOSS
foundations could throw some money in - don't count on corporates, you
might think that Nokia and HTC would be interested, but in the end they
don't want to kill the patent system as now they're the loser, but could
be winner in other cases).
The message would be simple: don't buy Apple stuff. It's the highest
shame that the guys that pretend to be so cool about innovation are also
so lame to use broken laws to win the competition, instead of doing sane
competition.
The problem is that 90% of those complaining about patents has bought an
iPhone (*) and if you ask them for boycotting the company you can
imagine the answer.
(*) Not me, for the record.
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Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager
Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere."
java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people
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