Seems like the Apple fans rejoice the news. Their platform of choice is clearly loosing to Android and now Apple wins patent suit.
They argue that Apple is came up with the whole iPhone idea and has all rights to protect it. There are also a lot of talks on how everybody copied iPhone. And that Eric Schmidt is a spy who has stolen the whole idea from Apple while on the board of directors and gave it to Google: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?threadid=128552 However, they forget to mention that patents involved are ridiculous and have nothing to do with iPhone "invention" (they filled like in 90s long before the iPhone phenomena). And also that Apple did quite well with GUI stolen from Xerox :) Nobody is doing anything from scratch. Everything is built on top of something. Only the degree of innovation is different. On Jul 19, 3:30 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > More information > here:http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-deals-massive-patent-blow-to... > > The way I read it, the patent involved applies to everything from phones to > MP3 players to computers to more. i.e. the usual completely ridiculous US > Patent System is easily abused problem. Hopefully a saner judge will prevail > in an appeal. > > NB: ZDNet article quotes Florian Mueller a lot, who isn't known as a > particularly reliable source; sensationalist headlines and an extremely > pro-apple outlook are his usual mode. > > NB2: While you really should read the full thing, to give you a taste, one > of the two patents involved has the following summary: "A system and method > causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in > computer data.". Well, oops. I better delete every piece of software I ever > wrote, then, I guess. -- 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.
