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"May those thieving accountants and their lying lawyers burn in hell and be sodomised for all eternity - vigorously."

Hilarious!!

My sentiments exactly. May this happen to all patent trolls!

But in this case, I don't consider Nokia a patent troll. Their entire product line uses these patents, and they've already licensed these patents to several other companies, and they've spent billions developing the technology.

This is a rare case where, with what limited knowledge of the case I currently possess, I side with the company doing the suing, not the company being sued.

Apple appears to think it does not have to respect other people's intellectual property, while demanding that other respect theirs.

As for Nokia losing market share - yes that has happened. However, they still sell more smart phones, and more phones overall, than all their other competitors (including Apple) combined, according to Gartner. In fact, Nokia sells about 3 times as many smart phones as Apple does.

It's just that Nokia doesn't have the same marketing glitz Apple does, nor the same cult following Apple does. So everyone assumes Apple is kicking Nokia's butt in the market place, which of course is false (albeit they have taken some share away).

And I have no strong feelings about Nokia one way or the other. I have a basic Nokia flip phone. It's okay, but nothing special.

And I have an iPod. It's a good device, but it depends on iTunes, which I hate (both the store and the software).

I also hate Apple's arrogance. It will be good for them to served some humble pie.