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You think property rights don't exist elsewhere? The only "free lunch" is the one paid for with stolen money, e.g.: taxes. The rich are leaving and renouncing. There are a lot of c…

The rich are moving, and there's quite an exodus going on. I'm part of it. Of course it is harder for the super-rich. The US government is not going to let you leave the country wi…

As a mental exercise, consider the thought process behind the perspective that this is "anti-competitive". 1. Apple has taken a technology- metal milling- that has existed for at l…

Well, I am suspicious about an article that talks about lathes with regard to making Macbook parts. A Lathe is a machine on which parts are spun at great speed. It is good for maki…

Good Point. For instance, New Zealand. Nice place. Great People. First class quality of life-- better than the USA. Higher taxes than the USA in many ways, but the government is so…

There are many places an american can go. Unlike the USA, most countries don't tax your worldwide income. So, for instance, you could become a citizen of any of the EU countries th…

That's the number of people who renounced. And that number is going up dramatically, and I've heard that the published figures for renouncement are way under-reported. (as in here …

Gold was criminalized for use in transactions in 1933 by executive order. I think that's a fair point to mark the end of the "gold standard" and the beginning of the fiat era. It i…

Taking twitter for example, it is rendering content in a native app when you're looking at tweets. The content is delivered in json (or whatever) standard format and rendered in na…

The pain of doing web development for a maze of twisty browsers, all alike and incompatible makes iOS a "superior" choice in the sense that it means less headaches. For me, it does…

All good reasons. My reasons are: -- The Apple frameworks are first class. In the past 20 years, there has never been a set of GUI frameworks that I've seen that was anywhere near …

The only reason to not team up with Microsoft, et. al, is if google wanted to use the patents against them. If google simply wanted to be immune to claims from the Novell patents, …

Is it really covert? In the case of the Nortel bids, the bidders were getting government approval before bidding, and it was made public after the fact who was in the groups. I'm n…

I posit that android would not be on the market in the touch-screen form it is now, if Apple hadn't made its inventions public due to the patent process. If you consider android in…

The email makes it pretty clear: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/03/microsoft.says...

You're confusing the Nortel and Novell bids. MSFT invited Google to join the group bidding on the Novell patents. The email I saw was an invitation to talk about joining, which Goo…

It was an offer to talk, not terms, as is made clear in the email. Your point is lying dead in a ditch.

Google is talking about both, and google refused to even TALK to microsoft about joining one of the groups bidding on patents that google is now complaining about. The claim that t…

Two points: 1) Apple has never sued google, to my knowledge, and there are no active lawsuits currently. I'm not aware of any suits from Microsoft either. 2) IF Apple were to sue g…

You're in error. This was MSFT offering for google to talk about joining in the bidding. Google turned them down without knowing what the terms were, because the terms hadn't even …

"Software developers, and Open Source developers in particular, have been adamantly against software patents for a very long time." This is exactly as true as the claim that all sc…

In order to patent something, you have to reduce it to practice. That is to say, you have to actually make it work, in the real world. That Stephen Spielburg was able to do it with…

Right, you can't argue the facts so just be disparaging. The Microsoft Surface came out in 2008, not "years" before Apple showed the iPhone. You're absolutely uninformed about even…

Neither of those are prior art. I suggest you read the foundational patents, and if you're not familiar with the terms of art, get up to speed on it, and then look into whatever yo…