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Go choke a dick. Once again I offhandedly discovered that my comments were going to a great bit bucket. Why? Who the fuck knows but some pedarest at HN who for some reason decided …

I have to second a comment on the very article linked -- it is disturbing how you see a theme appear one day, and the next day hundreds of individual commentators are parroting exa…

Not at all. Microsoft and Apple simply want to make sure that Google has nothing to counter their patent attacks with. They don't want Google to have them. Now Google sharing them …

>I wouldn't be surprised if Google paid $1M each for the 1,000 IBM patents they bought. A billion dollar transaction does not happen quietly, and IBM would have no reason to keep i…

Came out and said what? This is just providing more detail to exactly what Google said before. Discount whatever second hand noise you've read elsewhere: Google has been very consi…

Would you mind pointing out where Google made that argument? Because Google didn't make that argument, no matter how terribly M G Sielger may misinterpret it. "They’re doing this b…

>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. You made this claim yeste…

I don't think that Gruber was making a case for software patents. But he was. He is arguing that only a small handful of patents -- those used to attack Apple and/or app store deve…

He recently posted a link to a story about Amazon removing the various buy bits from their app, which the snarky commentary "That wasn't hard, was it?" A few hours later he complet…

>Any patent can be made to look obvious by quoting half a sentence Apple themselves distilled their own patent into the specific infringement. Their reading was identical to mine. …

Perhaps, but it is entirely pertinent. Many of these pro-patent positions, I suspect, are entirely rooted in the feeling of belonging to a certain community. See Gruber's bizarrely…

>Maybe go look at the actual patent lawsuits against HTC, Samsung et al., they aren't hard to find. You say so much while saying so little. Apple's assault on HTC is a perfect demo…

>The point he's making is that showing a rendered clip of some UI is not prior art, as far as patents go While the discussion was targeted more at the actual value of software pate…

Are you always such a boring fanboy? THAT is the Apple multitouch patent that the industry holds as fearsome. No one gives a shit about the Fingertouch patents.

>But Android OS doesn't resemble an iPaq, it resembles iOS. Both have significant similarity to a year 2000 iPaq. Full screen mobile device using a touchscreen against an icon grid…

"Apple didn't patent anything first, they bought the inventor and paid him." http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...

>Literally, I am tired offending the trolls. You spend a good 90% of each of your posts saying nothing of value but instead offending me and pandering to the crowd, desperately try…

The RIM thing was a giant lie. Remarkable that anyone ever thought it was true, much less would be referencing it now. The random message board commentator, seeking aggrandizement …

"The Microsoft Surface came out in 2008" Surface was unveiled in 2007, with the final hardware design being completed two years prior. The project itself started based upon, humoro…

>You are not aware of what the multi-touch patents cover, what the inventions are, and you are not aware of what patents are and so you think the movie "minority report" and non-mu…

Your argument is ludicrous. My position on software patents mirrors the general complaint about software patents -- overwhelmingly they provide a monopoly on trivial, obvious, or i…

"They actually force competition-- and they give a leg up to all of your competitors by quickly bringing them up to speed on the state of the art." Are you seriously arguing that c…

Perhaps this is an unfair caricature, but it has been my observation that the vast majority of "pro-software patent" supporters are misguided fans of either Microsoft or Apple. The…

Indeed. And once Google stocks up on thousands of purchased patents (humorously they just bought a bunch of database patents from IBM, which I have no doubt they're going to start …

This is an incredible claim. Do you realize that Apple and Microsoft are being sued constantly as well?