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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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Wow that would suck. Going on trial over Motorolla patents... Sorry Chucker
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Columbus, Georgia
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All of this patent crap has got to stop. "A method for syncing" Are you kidding me? People have been doing this for years by hand, copying one set of contacts and dates from one datebook into another. Just because it has been implemented in software shouldn't make it something to be patented. As long as one software company did not copy code from the other, different implementations of the same features should be allowed. This is a crazy waste of resources and time. Instead of making their product better so that people will choose it, they are forcing people who want that feature to only use their product.
What is moto currently selling that uses this patent anyway? What Adobe Updater‽ What‽ What‽ WHAT‽ |
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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The other half is that either by law or by long-standing precedent (I forget which) you can't patent math, and all software boils down to math on 1s and 0s. When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Some place
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Well I just read on BBC news, that "A German court has ruled in Motorola Mobility's favour in a patents dispute with Apple." But this is preliminary ruling from a regional court.
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Can't patent math? Ha… that was the argument the US Supreme court made before '74 I believe. Somehow we decided that patenting math was right. Software patents are really a moral gray area. Considering patents are supposed to increase the willingness to make technological strides, I think they last too long and become anticompetitive.More so when it comes to pharmaceuticals IMO, no wonder government expenditure on healthcare per capita in the US is worse than more socialized countries with greater aging population and higher taxes.
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I don't support software patents at all, but I don't find this to be a valid argument. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Oh yeah, it's totally not 1s and 0s.
You're not touching the math, you're touching the virtualization of a "built thing" that can only be built with the "magic" of software. Each app is a "machine" that you control with buttons and levers and things that "do" things when you push, prod and swipe them. It's the manner in which these things operate which is in question. If I push button "A" it will make rotating plate "B" drop down to show me data element "C". I agree that this is arguably something you might patent. Apple is fighting for its life to never repeat the mistake of allowing another company to steal its interface and gain control of the market. They've been down that road and they realize the stakes. Consumer bitching be damned - if it's patentable, goddamned patent the bitch and charge a fee if your competition can't arrive at a similar solution. Yes, this is a Karmically dangerous path to take but the alternative has already been experienced back in the late 80s. I'm still trying to remember who came up with the "pull down to refresh" interface on the iPhone first. I think it was the Tweetie app wasn't it? If they aren't already charging a licensing fee, those guys should be suing the shit out of Facebook and a bunch of other devs for glomming onto that particular way of refreshing a page of data. It's unique and a great solution. Their interface should be acknowledged and they should in some way be rewarded for the innovation. ... |
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