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

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Question: Is a lot of the backend supposed to be available through going directly to the wp-content? If you go to uniloc.com/wp-content/, there's backups, images, plugins, and even a .sql file...

Hah nice. Probably not the kind of firm you want to be messing with, however... Then again I'll just leave this here. http://uniloc.com/wp-content/backup-9b7a1/uniloc_wpu_2012032...

You can find more here: http://pastebin.com/sevdmwzz

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

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Seriously - what the fuck Google? It's only a matter of time until a patent troll writes a for loop on the store index to send out infringement suits DMCA-takedown style.

As the video mentions, people have been sued for App Store and Steam as well. Google, and Apple and Valve, can send their own lawyers to defend these clients, but since there are dozens of cases, it will be quite expensive. They can maybe sue these trolls for tortous interference, but that may not stick. So they can't do much.

If they systematically defended these clients it would not take long for the patent trolls to seek greener pastures. After all, patent trolls are in it to get a settlement or payout. If there's a class of lawsuits where they have no hope of seeing any money, they would steer clear.

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

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I have no idea! I'm not a corporate lawyer. And, frankly, I'm not surprised that it took a fair amount of legal work to figure out the answer. I, like you I take it, have the intuition that the answer should be "no." But I'm also not confident that the answer is not "yes." If the answer is "yes," I'd say the odds are 50/50 that there is a good reason behind it. (If, as one should, you count as a good reason "there is…

There is no answer, there is no law, no standard, no precedent, which any "unusually sophisticated" lawyer looking at it for a few minutes would realize. But instead of informing the "unusually sophisticated" court honestly "hey, I had this idea, but I researched it and it doesn't look like there is anything directly applicable" (you know, truth, whole truth, nothing but, and no standing by while the court is misled)…

Not a lawyer, but if this specific issue is important to you, could you define it in your contract or by-laws somewhere?

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

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A comment from a reddit thread states: The gist behind this case is that the Judge's son owns patent law firm in East Texas where they often represent both sides. This guy doesn't live in East Texas. However, the dad lets these stupid cases into the town to bring business to his son. Really shady. I agree with clavelle's comment. It's not so much the laws, but the system that allows this to occur. Link here: https://…

According to the wikipedia page for the Eastern District of Texas both of the judges he names are retired from the court, one in 2011 and one in 2015. How does he claim in 2016 that these judges are presiding on his case and cases like it?

Perhaps they are on senior status: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status

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

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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.

I am hoping for INTERCAL. "COME FROM" is very much needed now that GOTO is considered harmful.

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

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A while back, I did some research into patent trolls, and came across the history of NPE firms that do DPA (defensive patent aggregation), like RPX [0]. What surprised me from a game theoretical perspective was how murky things got. These situations can be tough on entrepreneurs and seem to create space for said entrepreneur to purchase protection in the form of patent aggregation to mitigate against potential devast…

I came from an European country, and the root cause seems pretty clear to me: why defending yourself in court is so damn expensive? In my country, you don't often need an attorney (although for complex cases you certainly do), but even if you do hire an attorney, they cost way, way less. Like $20,000 for a complex case, and it's going to be a team of lawyers.

Also, companies just don't sue each other that often. I don't know why US is different.

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

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America needs to follow New Zealand's example: Ban software patents!

In the video, he says that the politicians stopped the issue from even being voted on. That's without Silicon Valley stepping in to really lobby against that kind of ban (NZ has no equivalent of SV)

Big companies in Silicon Valley can defend themselves, so they don't care. It's small businesses that are affected.

And big companies do not really want competition from small businesses.

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

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Boost has macro header libs that allow pretty much anything within the macros system limits to be computed. Lookup Boost preproccessor and youll be even more impressed.

My dad used to tell idiots that he was very impressed with their ideas; one day, he pointed out to me that the impression was not always a positive one. Edit: Not saying Boost is idiotic; just that you may not be positively impressed with their use of preprocessor magic.

The same goes for "quality". It may be a quality product but a poor quality product. If 'quality' is the best word marketing can come up with, maybe marketing isn't of very high quality!

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

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

What is missing in your estimation?

WebAssembly and efficient arrays bounds checks.
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