When does your radio show start, obviously Rush the idiot, needs the competition. He drives a MayBach too, because he can afford it.
Posted on 08/24/2012 4:10:12 PM PDT by Perdogg
A U.S. jury on Friday said Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has infringed some of Apple Inc's patents, and that all of those patents are valid.
The verdict in the high-stakes trial between the two tech giants was still being read in a federal courtroom in San Jose, California, and not all of the key legal findings had been announced.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I’ve never seen a Strat with 24 frets. What type of music do you play with a creation like that?
I'd rather parse their JSON-based APIs. More profitablolol.
But like you say, if you're not paying, you're the product others are paying for...
“The Warmoth Pro necks are better than those on American Series Stratocasters?”
Yes! You know that Fender sent all guitar production to Japan. When they wanted to restart American production, they freaked! “How are we going to make better guitars than the Japanese?” The big secret among the Nashville Cats was,,,,,, get a Japanese guitar! Which I did! Far better than the American guitars! Sorry!
$300 dollar upgrade for clueless bitchizz is my bet
Actually, I build my own machines and set them up manually with open source software. I just finished building a server that has significantly more functionality than any commercial product you’d find in its price range.
“Intellectual property” is a clumsy attempt at applying physical properties to an intangible object. It wouldn’t surprise me if you also equated copyright infringement with theft.
Is “capitalism” your response to Apple’s bad behavior? Then capitalism needs regulations to rein in companies like Apple. It’s trying to claim credit for such innovations as rounded rectangles and filing avalanches of lawsuits over them. Their actions waste money, clog the legal system, and reduce competition by banning competing products. They’re patent trolls, plain and simple.
Whatever that makes me by your definition, those are my guns and I’m sticking to them.
How very liberal of you.
To their credit.
I worked for Xerox back in that general time frame.
Worst case of corporate tunnel vision I’ve ever seen, or can even imagine.
Bingo.
A patent *IS* a monopoly.
It grants a legal monopoly for a limited time to forbid anyone from copying your intellectual property.
It costs a full disclosure of that intellectual property.
When a utility patent expires anyone, anywhere can make the exact same widget or use the exact same code. Your idea becomes the property of all of mankind.
The benefit of your creation outlives the patent, that brief period when only you can make or authorize the manufacture of your idea provides the incentive that drives innovation.
Why would anyone go through all that work if they could not profit from it?
Yep, sometimes a bad “corporate culture” and its resulting blindness precludes recognizing and pursuing bright opportunities—despite the best efforts of some of its best people.
Sigh. How MANY TIMES do I have to repeat my self on FreeRepublic shooting down this LIE! Apple paid Xerox with 1,000,000 shares of pre-IPO Apple common stock for two eight hour visits to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and for the rights to use what they learned there. Xerox sold those shares three years after the public offering for over $16 million.
The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), not PARC, and Apple paid royalties to SRI until the the patents on the computer mouse expired.
There IS no penalty for that which was bought and paid for, Red. Stop spreading lies!
Xerox's suit was filed and then DROPPED by a CEO who was unaware of the agreements that resulted in the Apple visits. Xerox dropped the suit when Apple presented the agreements SIGNED by the previous CEO in its answer to the suit, showing no tortuous conduct took place. They also pointed out the statute of limitations had long since passed, but that was secondary to their primary point.
Apple did not win the Microsoft suit because a judge ruled that a very poorly worded contract that Apple's John Sculley thought limited a use license of their GUI to only Windows version 1, actually was unlimited, and threw out all of Apple's infringement claims based on that contract's wording! There actually were about seven things.
When does your radio show start, obviously Rush the idiot, needs the competition. He drives a MayBach too, because he can afford it.
Are you arguing for or against Apple being a Cult? just curious.
Such an intelligent observation. You must have an advanced degree! You must excel in spotting those holes. I have a pretty good 'certainty' about you, as well!
Have a good day, and enjoy the sauna. with your 'boys'...
Right...
Xerox Received Financial Compensation from Apple
The compensation for the Xerox PARC technology sharing deal with Apple was in form of $1 million dollars pre-IPO Apple stock / investment (if Apple does well, Xerox will benefit from Apple’s success).
The PARC demo took place in 1979. Xerox received its compensation in exchange for showing some prototypes that Xerox didn’t know what to do with.
“November: Steve Jobs and software engineer Bill Atkinson visit the Xerox PARC lab in Palo Alto, California. More Apple employees will visit a month later.”
“Jobs and several Apple employees including Jef Raskin visited Xerox PARC in December 1979 to see the Xerox Alto. Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 100,000 shares of Apple at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share.”
ANd this "certainty" is based on.....????
I know several people personally who do development for both the OSX platform and the iOS platform - some of which also write for other platforms as well - and they all - every single one - prefer Apple's developer tools. Yes, there was a day when writing apps for Apple's OS was convoluted and inconvenient - that day is long passed. Apple has opened the door to development for their platforms in a big way - thus the reason for the plethora of both great and not-so-great iOS apps.
WOW! So complicated and convoluted... I guess if one is an idiot...
You missed the point completely. It’s not the free exercise of spending money or making it, I applaud them for it. It’s those of you who champion Apple as a bastion of the American spirit and it’s American ingenuity while ignoring the fact that they could easily build their devices here and still make money. I would wager the majority of their employees work in call centers and at Genius bars instead of in factories building the iDevices the American people demand. Heck even Samsung employs more manufacturing employees in the US than Apple.
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