EPTGoogle sues Apple - Page 9
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jinorazi
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oGoZenob
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Necro)Phagist(
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On August 29 2012 00:40 jinorazi wrote: Question is...if google has definite upper hand, will google agree to settlement or want apple products off the shelves If I was google I'd want apple right off the shelves... make them restart from scratch essentially. Less competition = more money then a settlement could ever get you... Go Go Google Hwaiting  Muahaha what will the poor hipsters do when they can't buy an overpriced apple product every couple of months?? | ||
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Vaelone
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Maxd11
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TsGBruzze
Sweden1190 Posts
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S_SienZ
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On August 29 2012 00:27 Krowser wrote: Apple is going berzerk with stupid patents. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if someone patented the round wheel, forcing everyone else to use up to 21 sided wheels for their cars. It's stupid and it slows down technological advancements. All for the sake of money. And who started all of this?? Why, the richest company in the USA! Because clearly they NEED more money. w.. t... f....... Patents actually give many small development firms leverage which they would never get in a world without patents. The alternatives are copyright and trade secrets, both of which are probably more inhibitive to tech advancement. Is anyone seriously naive enough to think that most things would be open source? Good luck getting funding and investors. | ||
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Twinkle Toes
United States3605 Posts
On August 29 2012 00:40 jinorazi wrote: Question is...if google has definite upper hand, will google agree to settlement or want apple products off the shelves All about the money. It's really all depends on the analysts. Who will recognize they are winning and will pounce on it. Depending on the strength of their case, I don't ever see the winning side do anything else but obliterate the other. I mean that will open the market wide open. The only reason that this will go to a settlement is that if both have an even chance and there is more to lose in a prolonged legal battle than in meeting halfway. As long as there are no mergers, either result is fine by me. | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
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intotheheart
Canada33091 Posts
Mood music? | ||
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plated.rawr
Norway1676 Posts
Man, I love cyberpunk! That said, hopefully this entire charade will force some changes to the patent system. | ||
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Maxd11
United States680 Posts
On August 29 2012 01:33 plated.rawr wrote: War of the megacorporations. It starts with the patent disputes. Then the corporate-funded hackers start harassing the servers, digging for sensitive information and sabotaging enemy systems. Then they send in the operatives - surgically modified, cybernetically enhanced vat-grown superhumans completely under the control of the central corporate AI. Man, I love cyberpunk! That said, hopefully this entire charade will force some changes to the patent system. You've been playing a little bit too much deus ex sir. | ||
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b3n3tt3
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it's only a matter of time | ||
alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
On August 28 2012 22:42 NeMeSiS3 wrote: You don't... Fuck... With Google. When you play a game of phones you win or you die holy crap. nice one dude. | ||
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SkelA
Macedonia13032 Posts
Samsung gonna get some revenge from Google  | ||
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Chronos.
United States805 Posts
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1handsomE
United States199 Posts
On August 29 2012 00:58 S_SienZ wrote: Patents actually give many small development firms leverage which they would never get in a world without patents. The alternatives are copyright and trade secrets, both of which are probably more inhibitive to tech advancement. Is anyone seriously naive enough to think that most things would be open source? Good luck getting funding and investors. Software patents are completely different. They are 'supposed' to protect R and D but all they really do is kill competition (which is bad for customers if you didn' t know). A software copyright on the code is a much better solution, although definitely not a perfect one. And the truth is patents own small developers face. It's the reason why many get shutdown. It seems like it might be a good idea, 'oh I got this sick idea let's patent it'. Problem is, giant companies like IBM have patents that nearly every single software program ever written infringes on. For example, I believe IBM has a patent for returning negative values as an error. This is somewhat of a staple in programming (if you didn't know). This is only an example but there are tons of these. If you are the small guy and you get a software patent and some big guy takes your idea and you sue them with your patent, they will countersue you with their 17,000 patents you infringe on. Or if they like your idea and just want to put you out of business they can just by sueing you. You don't have the money to fight back, and you don't have the money to license their patent. tl;dr software patents don't help small companies. EDIT PS: I can tell you why Apple is suing them, it was Steve Jobs pushing for it. If you read his book you will find out how narcissistic he was. He truly believes he owns everything. | ||
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neobowman
Canada3324 Posts
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moopie
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oneofthem
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