Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad

Post by dhughes » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 4:02 PM UTC

anonmouse wrote: post #25

jarofgreen wrote: post #23

This is brilliant - but not because I hate Apple or have anything against someone choosing to use Apple, even tho I don't myself. But hopefully a ban on such a popular product (right before Christmas to) will bring software patents and all the issues around them fully into the public attention and debate. In the past it's been really hard to explain to non-geeks why they should care about such issues ... Or am I bein…

I downvoted you. Here's why: It's hard to take anyone seriously when they misspell "though" "tho". You may have made a good point, but I didn't read past your first sentence. I'm not trying to be a dick about it-- and I hate to clog up the comments section with a garbage comment like this one-- but you would really be doing yourself a favor to use somewhat correct spelling and grammar. It really sucks when people ign…

Post by mc32 » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 4:49 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #17

barrkel wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an amusing taxonomy, but don't fool yourself into thinking this stuff can be so precisely and unambiguously delineated. There's a continuum between a province with some autonomy to fully-fledged independent nation state, and the application of various English words to refer to particular entities that lie in different places on the continuum is governed primarily by history and culture, not by legal and politi…

Not to mention the fact that, as far as I am aware, the term used for the constituents parts of the UK is "country": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom I don't think many people answer "British" to the question "What country are you from?".

Post by jmmcd » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 5:53 PM UTC

barrkel wrote: post #16

babebridou wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just false. Just to clear things up: - a state with lower-case S is a subdivision of a Federal Country. - a State with upper-case S is a synonym of Country. - All members of the EU are States/Countries. Some of these countries are Federal (Germany for instance) and are subdivised into states (Länder in the case of Germany). - Some States of the EU include multiple Nations. UK is one of these. Scotland is neit…

That's an amusing taxonomy, but don't fool yourself into thinking this stuff can be so precisely and unambiguously delineated. There's a continuum between a province with some autonomy to fully-fledged independent nation state, and the application of various English words to refer to particular entities that lie in different places on the continuum is governed primarily by history and culture, not by legal and politi…

Post by r00fus » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC

robertskmiles wrote: post #7

CaveTech wrote: post #2

Pretty big piece of FUD here. Title is "secures Europe-wide sales ban", yet the article is littered with bits like "could be barred from sale" and "whether Germany can enforce a Europe-wide ban on 3G-enabled iOS devices is unclear".

I like that HN tends to stay away from reddit-style sensationalist titles. I suppose here the OP is just copying the original title verbatim, but it's still misleading. Regarding the article itself, hopefully this will help popularise the fact that software patents are a bad joke.

Post by iradik » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 10:19 PM UTC

jarofgreen wrote: post #23

This is brilliant - but not because I hate Apple or have anything against someone choosing to use Apple, even tho I don't myself. But hopefully a ban on such a popular product (right before Christmas to) will bring software patents and all the issues around them fully into the public attention and debate. In the past it's been really hard to explain to non-geeks why they should care about such issues ... Or am I bein…