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Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by netforay »

bluejekyll wrote: post #338
corndoge wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Web does not and will never have the same quality of experience as a native application.

Do you use slack? Is that a "web" app or "native"? I think the lines are blurring.

It is like using all web apps in native wrapper and the telling that all web apps looks like native apps.

Slack desktop is a webapp packed in native wrapper.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by c_c_c »

ben174 wrote: post #348
Bjorkbat wrote: post #259

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They can use dogescript. In dogescript it's a much loop. https://github.com/dogescript/dogescript/blob/master/LANGUAG...

I'm just waiting for one of these languages to catch on, gain traction, and become a real respected language used in business settings.

Not respected maybe but lolcode is functional, complete, and extensible.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by toomim »

ultramancool wrote: post #269
quest88 wrote: post #246

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Ah yes. Former East Texan here. One company, Personal Web ( http://www.personalweb.com/about.html ), setup shop near the courthouse. They came to our school claiming they were going to be working on the next version of the web, web 3.0. They were recruiting for part-time only students. I asked why they chose east texas, and they said because they owned many patents wanted to be near the court that here's many technol…

Any chance you know anyone who got a position with them? Really curious what kind of make work projects they had people doing.

Wouldn't it be great if someone got a job with these companies, as a mole? Then snoop through their activities, and write it up as an exposé?

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by aylons »

ben174 wrote: post #348
Bjorkbat wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can use dogescript. In dogescript it's a much loop. https://github.com/dogescript/dogescript/blob/master/LANGUAG...

I'm just waiting for one of these languages to catch on, gain traction, and become a real respected language used in business settings.

This is Javascript.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by BuckRogers »

If Google won't step in and litigate the patent trolls into poverty, ruining everyone's life who is involved and possibly even promising to ruin their children's and grandchildren's lives long after the actual patent trolls are dead...

that would stop it.

But in the meantime, guess I'll just be writing webapps.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by TheDong »

ZainRiz wrote: post #321
Cshelton wrote: post #314

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If Google just paid for the defense of the developers, without patent reform, wouldn't that just encourage more patent trolls to arise, knowing there is a massive pot of gold?

Only if the trolls won. On the other hand, if Google's lawyers gave them the smack down then all the patent trolls would go scurrying back under the rocks they crawled out from

Even when trolls lose, they're typically shell companies with no assets, so they can't pay for the legal fees of the winner (they just go bankrupt) and the winner still loses in terms of money.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by MereInterest »

Raticide wrote: post #319
dopamean wrote: post #270

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I know nothing about C. You can alias keywords like that?

You can even do evil like #define true false

Along the same lines, for added (and undefined) fun:

    #define static thread_local
    #define if(X) if((X) ^ (rand()

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by acomjean »

cma wrote: post #340
hhsnopek wrote: post #172

I find it oddly funny how Google hasn't stepped in to support their "clients", I'd think they'd help shutdown patent trolls so developers can continue to improve and distribute applications

He mentioned in the video that App Store apps were getting affected sometimes too, did Apple step in? (I'm legitimately asking, I thought I remembered something about them doing so, but it might have been in relation to a different patent thing unrelated to the store itself).

apples app developers were sued, apple tried to step in. The circumstances were a little different.

This is what I could find. I think the suits were dropped.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/08/apple-tells-judge-inter...

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Post by mcbits »

froo wrote: post #330

Someone really needs to create a patent that defines methods of patent trolling, so every time one of these scumbags starts a lawsuit you can sue them.

Someone (Halliburton!) already tried: http://www.google.com/patents/US20080270152

Edit: And IBM apparently got one granted: http://www.google.com/patents/US8386350

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