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To save everyone the time, here's a typical Internet thread about Stallman: - He's crazy! - But he's right! - Right? He's just been stating the obvious all this time! - NSA surveil…

> Microsoft was hated because they aggressively pushed out competitors in dishonest ways, because they intentionally made it difficult to interoperate with their software through p…

> This somehow makes Google like 90's Microsoft? You should have stopped there. Removing Cyanogenmod may not be it, but the rest of your post just opens it up for pointing out how …

Ahh, that is very helpful, thanks. So my evaluation of their answer was premature, but I guess no more premature than those who would take it as an indication that "B&N sure showed…

Also, by my dangerously semi-informed understanding, B&N's defense looked really weak (see previous comment on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540902 ). I'd still…

Hmm, since we're on the topic, and IIRC you have experience in these matters, could you take a quick look at this comment of mine, and let me know if my take on it is inaccurate: h…

Hah, even "something that was selling well" is not a description that could be applied to Kin.

This link, which goes into some detail about the Skyhook lawsuit, paints a starkly different picture: http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la... Google may hav…

See my comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668578 The situation for the people Gates is thinking of is very, very different from what we can even imagine…

Regarding Asha: I hear Asha is doing crazy well in low-end markets. Not sure how Microsoft can leverage it, but I'm sure they are aware of this.

I'm not sure that was bunk in Nokia's case. When they realized that Symbian had to go, they also realized that the vast bulk of the company was organized around that one OS. And if…

I also mention illiteracy. They lack even the basics to grasp any knowledge they could find online, or the capacity to imagine how they could use it, let alone being aware of what …

Many people are making the leap from "access to information" to "better lives" without proper explanation of how that would work. Sure, for us it's obvious, but we're not the demog…

I'm on a mobile device, so I cannot research as much as I'd like, but this is just a patent application, not an issued patent, and more encouragingly, a quick glance at USPTO pair …

Let me argue why I think this is patent is not too bad, and actually interesting in some ways not typically discussed. First here's the broadest claim (formatted for readability): …

OK, out of curiosity, I actually went ahead and read http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/MSvB&Nanswer.pdf , specifically the parts where they address the patents being asserted. Now, I'm u…

Yes, but the article (and the "sponsored comment" at the end) also say that before the CAFC happened, it was a different, though equally painful, patent mess.

Too late to edit, but as pointed out down-thread, I'd like to note that my use of the word "convicted" in this post was inaccurate, as this was a civil case. The correct wording sh…

> How is asserting these patents in court, or using them to get an import ban via the ITC, an example of how the patent system is supposed to work I thought I did so in point 3. (E…

> First, Motorola's h.264 and 802.11 license demands didn't happen until after Microsoft filed suit[1]. They were asking for a ridiculous rate, but let's get the timing right. You'…

To be fair, something that gets the extreme cases of bill-splitting right probably deserves a patent, if not a Nobel. After all, Bistromathics is the most powerful computational fo…

Not an essay, but did post a slightly more expansive comment just upthread :-)

>I find it absurd that FRAND patents are practically valueless They are not really "valueless", but are weaker simply because their holders pledged them to FRAND license terms in o…

>Please, by all means, explain how demanding the same fee they would for licensing Windows Phone itself[2] for such ridiculously terrible patents is exactly how the patent system i…

As linked above: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac... This is from the same site that published Google's original accusations, so I think it's less likel…