On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 10:42:12 +0200
Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I, for one, would prefer companies with a good track record of
> > commitment to the open source world hoover up dumb patents and leave
> > them sitting idle rather than Apple getting hold of them and
> > launching another one of their efforts to stop anyone else making
> > GUIs, smartphones, or whatever.
>
> and then getting buyed by some evil corporation who uses the patents
> against everyone else? (C.f. Sun and Oracle.) It's not that Sun was
> particularly hostile to open source.
I shouldn't get involved in this - I will probably piss {some,every}one
off big time.
What the hell ...
Long ago I looked at buying a Lisa - but I wanted to upgrade it.
Like Apples fscked up business model would allow that ... never bought
Apple, never will.
And who amongst you believe Larry Ellison has *your* interests at heart ?.
CPTN Holdings maybe ... ?
Redhat ... ?
Ubuntu ... ?
Sorry, the times of innocence have passed.
Shane ...
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