

Samsung Galaxy S II  (Source: Samsung)
You can run, but you can't hide from Microsoft's wrath










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RE: wow
By grebe925 on 9/29/2011 5:51:52 AM , Rating: 2
MS has created "impossible huge amount of tech"? Their MS-DOS was a rip-off, Windows was a rip-off, IE was a rip-off, MS Office was rip-off and they made their money copyrighting the computer equivalent of the placement of the brake, accelerator and clutch pedals in a car because car-makers cannot interchange them.

If anything has to have the highest bar for obtaining a patent, it should be software. Because, by it's very definition, it is meant to do different things for different people on the same underlying hardware. These patents are squelching true innovation.

RE: wow
By nocturne_81 on 9/29/2011 7:06:01 AM , Rating: 2
DOS wasn't a rip-off... it was a steal!

Gates was contracted by IBM to produce an OS.. so he went out and bought DOS for a measly $50k.

As far as the rest... you lost me there, buddy..

If you actually want to learn a bit about the patent system and the advent of software, start by looking into object code vs source code litigations -- ironically, a huge step backward for software innovation that Apple is entirely responsible for. Or really, start at the beginning by learning what's required to file a patent. Basically, you hire a lawyer who is required to do a discovery process to determine if it's legitimately original, and then pass it on to the patent office who sits on it for a few years before giving it the ol' rubber stamp without the slightest glance.

