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Apple and the US patent system
est:
Hey everyone, here's a great idea! Let's take a bunch of things that are taken for granted, already being used in other realms of computing or at least already in development and then patent them for use in phones! The patent system is so fucked that they'll give the patents to us, then we can sue anyone who tries to make a competing product!
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/htc-feeling-apples-fury-over-smartphone-patents.ars
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/apples-itc-complaint-names-htc-phones-10-other-patents.ars
Isn't the patent system awesome!
Ozymandias:
Apple is still the most evil fucking company in computers.
McTaggart:
Software patents are straight up fucked. The whole patent system is fucked but the way you can patent features that have been used for so long that they aren't even features anymore or are so fucking vague that they can sue you for tying your shoelaces is fucked doubly so.
Alex C:
It's not like it was the first time someone had thought of a touchscreen before either. For fuck's sake, look at ATMs.
JD:
Oh damn, you got me.
Good thing I live in Canada.
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