Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Samsung Found Guilty of Copying Apple, Ordered to Pay Over $1 Billion in Damages

2012-08-25 Thread Gillian Densmore 
Not a lawyer nor an economist-would love to here a explination for how this
even came to court.
Seriusly round cornered icons are patentable? (If I had the money right now
i'd consider getting one of the phones apples complaining about) This does
strike me as a bad move apple in terms of the parts and the US phone
ecology. They were at one point using samsungs american plants to
manufacture the i(name here) stuff. I hope they have someone else ready
once the current stock runs out. Unless MS pulls out of the portable
market- sooner or later woudn't MS decide attempt to compete (more?) with
the iphone? What wories and amuses me is that it looks like the only way
for MS and Apple to compete with inovations from google  and others is to
team up- and when they stop inovating sue them-instead of competing on a
even playing field.
Other peoples thoughts on this?

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Owen Densmore  wrote:

> This is so weird:
>  http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=24064
> .. I think the whole patent thing has gone way to far.  But, hey, maybe
> they DID steal?
>
>-- Owen
>
> 
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[FRIAM] will we walk on mars?

2012-08-25 Thread Gillian Densmore 
Anyone care to predict if man will go back to the moon? and also who'd care
to predict weather or not man will walk on mars?

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[FRIAM] RIP neil Armstrong

2012-08-25 Thread Gillian Densmore 
Neil Armstrong: all around bad arse joined the force : RIP
neil 
armstrong
.

Kick arse guy from what I've read-
May the force be with his family-

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