Feds To RIM: We Got Your Back, Just Keep The Crackberries Running
from the can't-be-without-that-hit dept
Almost three years ago, when people started talking about how RIM could be forced to kill Blackberry service in the US over their patent dispute with NTP, the US Congress filed a brief in the case noting how much damage it would to the US government should their Blackberries stop working. Don't think they haven't been watching the situation closely for the last three years either. While you would think that would have given government officials enough time to work out a backup plan (especially now that there really are viable alternatives to the Blackberry), that's not the case. With the momentum clearly shifting back to NTP in the case, the Justice Department has filed a statement of interest which (reading between the lines) says something along the lines of: "Please, please, please, please, please do not force RIM to shut off Blackberry service in the US. We'd just die." Ah, yes, once again the government looks for ways to avoid patents when they're inconvenient.
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Yeh, well . . .
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Why Blackberry over other solutions?
Additionally, in a corporate environment Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) is arguably the most stable and scalable solution for rolling out wireless email to hundreds or thousands of employees. Competitors like "Good" just aren't good enough.
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Re: Why Blackberry over other solutions?
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Re: Why Blackberry over other solutions?
Good read at Blackberry Surprise
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Re: Why Blackberry over other solutions?
1. Create a Plan
2. Execute the Plan
3. Hope the plan works
4. Pray the plan works
5. Holy crap, the plan isn't working.
6. OMG, what are we supposed to do??
7. Turn to the judicial system and bend the law to suit your strongest and deepest desires... no, we're not legalizing child porn here.
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Feds To RIM: We Got Your Back, Just Keep The Crack
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Feds To RIM: We Got Your Back, Just Keep The Crack
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RIM's stupidity is unbelievable
first sued by NTP and the court found RIM guilty of patent infringement, they were ordered to pay
*only* 23 million bucks in damages ...
Yet RIM decided to fight that court decision and
here we go - the meter is at 450 mil now (at least) and counting...
Talking about stupidity...
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