Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Jul 2011 22:12 UTC
"One of Microsoft's hottest new profit centers is a smartphone platform you've definitely heard of: Android. Google's Linux-based mobile operating system is a favorite target for Microsoft's patent attorneys, who are suing numerous Android vendors and just today announced that another manufacturer has agreed to write checks to Microsoft every time it ships an Android device. Microsoft's latest target is Wistron Corp., which has signed a patent agreement 'that provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for Wistron's tablets, mobile phones, e-readers and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome platform', Microsoft announced." That's the reality we live in, folks. This is at least as criminal - if not more so - than Microsoft's monopoly abuse late last century. After the Nortel crap, it's completely left the black helicopter camp for me: Microsoft, Apple, and several others are working together to fight Android the only way they know how: with underhand mafia tactics. Absolutely sickening. Hey Anonymous, are you listening? YES I WENT THERE.
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RE[7]: Patents are patents
by senshikaze on Wed 6th Jul 2011 01:30
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Member since:2011-03-08
An I went there moment would be pointing out MS is working within the legal system, and they are doing what they can to maximize profits for their shareholders, which is the correct thing for them to do.
profit at the expense of the mobile ecosystem and at the expense of smaller companies that have done nothing illegal is not correct in any sense. If this was a school, it would be called bullying and would be stopped. The same things we tell children to not do we reward in business.
God save America.
RE[8]: Patents are patents
by BluenoseJake on Wed 6th Jul 2011 09:18
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Member since:2005-08-11
Google is not a smaller company, not in any meaningful way, so for the purposes of this discussion, your point is irrelevant. MS's five bucks per Android phone is not going to hurt the ecosystem at all.
I think it's sleazy as hell, but it isn't the same as say Apple suing a small company that makes a product called "icloud"
God Save America? What is the purpose of that? Are you American?
RE[8]: Patents are patents
by Flatland_Spider on Wed 6th Jul 2011 19:32
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Member since:2006-09-01
I agree. I didn't say I agreed with what MS is doing. I said what they are doing is legal and good for their shareholders.
Patents and whatnot are choking out small business, and should be abolished.
Business is pretty messed up. There was an article that stated that most people successful in business exhibit traits of sociopaths, which explains quite a bit.
God save America
Is that a Sex Pistols reference?
RE[7]: Patents are patents
by orestes on Wed 6th Jul 2011 14:02
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Member since:2005-07-06
An "organization" like Anonymous will get action going alright, into more pervasive IP laws to protect corporate interests. I'm very much afraid the only way to "fix" it is to let it deteriorate to the point the suits themselves start begging for reform. That or somehow convince people en masse to stop consuming the crap shoveled at us.
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"I went there" means your serious. "I went there" mean you pointed out the elephant in the room that everyone has been avoiding talking about.
An I went there moment would be pointing out MS is working within the legal system, and they are doing what they can to maximize profits for their shareholders, which is the correct thing for them to do.
The joke also failed because some organization like Anonymous maybe the only way to get action on the issue of patent reform. No one is going to do us this favour, so we should probably get out there and do something.