Why would these people file suit the week before WWDC? It makes no sense at all.
Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers
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Re: Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers
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> It's OBVIOUSLY impossible for Johnny Coder to be aware of every patent There is no requirement that you be aware of the patent to infringe upon it. In fact, awareness of the patent may entitle the patent holder to increased damages. Disclaimer: I write software for a living. I'm not sure where I stand on the idea of software patents but I suspect they do more good than harm. I think that someone suing small, indepe…
> I suspect they do more good than harm I would like to see examples of software patents doing more good.
I would like to see examples of software patents doing any good at all.
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Their own public description of their patents[1] seems to cover both (and more). However, the example Apple cites in their letter[2] refers to "user feedback": Once again, Apple provides, under the infringement theories set out in your letters, the physical memory in which user feedback is stored and, just as importantly, the APIs that allow transmission of that user feedback to and from the App Store, over an Apple…
There must be prior art. Telephone voting on the Eurovision song contest? Customer helpline numbers? Comment cards in restaurants? Forgive me if I've missed something here.
Yup. The patent system is severely broken, especially their prior art research (or lack of).
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They are being assholes, which is fine as far as the law goes, but still it's a legit reason for being mad at them.
It's pointless, that's how corporations are. It's about as useful as getting mad at a wild animal for acting like an animal. The only time corporations "care" is when their customers want them to (because otherwise they would loose business).
Wild animals don't know what they're doing, the people behind corporations do. Corporations are abstract constructs, but they're run by people. And in this case the people are amoral assholes, extortionists leeching off of the work of others.
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It's pointless, that's how corporations are. It's about as useful as getting mad at a wild animal for acting like an animal. The only time corporations "care" is when their customers want them to (because otherwise they would loose business).
Wild animals don't know what they're doing, the people behind corporations do. Corporations are abstract constructs, but they're run by people. And in this case the people are amoral assholes, extortionists leeching off of the work of others.
Yes they are, I quite agree. And it's still pointless to get mad at them.
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Wild animals don't know what they're doing, the people behind corporations do. Corporations are abstract constructs, but they're run by people. And in this case the people are amoral assholes, extortionists leeching off of the work of others.
Yes they are, I quite agree. And it's still pointless to get mad at them.
How many times have you been mad about something it was pointless to be mad over? I'd guess a lot of times if you're like most people I know. In how many of those instances would it have been helpful for someone to say to you, "Hey, that thing you're mad over? Not useful to be mad about that." Probably not often, if you're anything like me.
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Yes they are, I quite agree. And it's still pointless to get mad at them.
How many times have you been mad about something it was pointless to be mad over? I'd guess a lot of times if you're like most people I know. In how many of those instances would it have been helpful for someone to say to you, "Hey, that thing you're mad over? Not useful to be mad about that." Probably not often, if you're anything like me.
My very first post in this thread was a bit more helpful - I told him to redirect his anger toward congress.
Re: Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers
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#59It was pretty silly to think Lodsys, which is solely a patent-holding company, would back down just because they got a letter from Apple's lawyers. Lodsys has lawyers too.
It's silly to think that a troll would go for the low-hanging fruit, instead of spending millions on a risky attempt against a massively richer company?
Well, Florian Müller predicted the likelihood.
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/05/analysis-of-apples-l...
Re: Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers
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It's pointless, that's how corporations are. It's about as useful as getting mad at a wild animal for acting like an animal. The only time corporations "care" is when their customers want them to (because otherwise they would loose business).
Wild animals don't know what they're doing, the people behind corporations do. Corporations are abstract constructs, but they're run by people. And in this case the people are amoral assholes, extortionists leeching off of the work of others.
The people who run corporations have obligations towards their investors. If they disagree, they may quit, but they cannot run a corporation against the interest of its investors. And, if they quit, someone will replace them.
This turns corporations into sociopath-like entities.