Thanks for taking time to discuss these important issues with us. May screen shots of this page appear in your campaign commercial resulting in your re-election.
With one post you have provided me with more information concerning these issues than my own Senators and Rep here in Ohio.
Sherrod Brown responded with doublespeak
Rob Portman never responded
Steve Austria never responded/div>
They also can not say things like "You don't want any trouble, so keep this between me and you, you know what I'm saying" when you have a video camera.
So instead they try to use the law to intimidate you.
"Stay out of this or I'll charge you with illegal wiretapping"/div>
Google could give Motorola/HTC/etc a license to the patents.
But Motorola/HTC/etc could not use them to counter sue Microsoft or Apple if they also own the same patent.
Apple, Microsoft, etc would simply sue Motorola/HTC using other patents.
The only way the patents help Android is if Google/Motorola/HTC/etc can use them against Apple, Microsoft, Oracle.
Maybe if it spelled out you will get it.
Mutually Assured Destruction works like this:
If Google solely owned the patents:
MS to Moto: We will sue you for patent A
Moto to MS: We will counter sue you for B that Google licensed to us
MS and Moto agree not to bother one another.
If Google/MS both own the patents:
MS to Moto: We will sue you for patent A
Moto to MS: We will counter sue you for B that Google licensed to us
MS to Moto: We also own patent B, sorry but we own you!
Moto to MS: How much to license patent A?/div>
If both Google and Microsoft jointly own the patents Microsoft can still sue Motorola, HTC, etc for patent infringement from using Android and Google can not stop them.
Only if Google has the sole rights to those patents can Google ensure they are not used to harm Android./div>
Re:
In other news, Barbra Streisand is reported missing during her recent trip to France./div>
Re:
Now that corporations are people it looks like they have also figured out how to commit suicide....../div>
Thanks
With one post you have provided me with more information concerning these issues than my own Senators and Rep here in Ohio.
Sherrod Brown responded with doublespeak
Rob Portman never responded
Steve Austria never responded/div>
Re: Re: This could be fun...
--sent from my iPad/div>
Re: Fight back
Re:
astrolabe
astrolube
I do agree that astrolabe will need lots of astrolube when this is done!/div>
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Re:
So instead they try to use the law to intimidate you.
"Stay out of this or I'll charge you with illegal wiretapping"/div>
(untitled comment)
Seems the only people who won were the lawyers....../div>
Re: Re: Re:
But Motorola/HTC/etc could not use them to counter sue Microsoft or Apple if they also own the same patent.
Apple, Microsoft, etc would simply sue Motorola/HTC using other patents.
The only way the patents help Android is if Google/Motorola/HTC/etc can use them against Apple, Microsoft, Oracle.
Maybe if it spelled out you will get it.
Mutually Assured Destruction works like this:
If Google solely owned the patents:
MS to Moto: We will sue you for patent A
Moto to MS: We will counter sue you for B that Google licensed to us
MS and Moto agree not to bother one another.
If Google/MS both own the patents:
MS to Moto: We will sue you for patent A
Moto to MS: We will counter sue you for B that Google licensed to us
MS to Moto: We also own patent B, sorry but we own you!
Moto to MS: How much to license patent A?/div>
Re: Now wait a minute...
Only if Google has the sole rights to those patents can Google ensure they are not used to harm Android./div>
Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jul 29th, 2011 @ 11:37pm
Your parents were able to do so because their work (you) was transformative./div>
Re: I'm screwed
The terrorist would be unlikely to act that way as s/he would not want to draw attention./div>
Re:
Here is an Idea called personal responsibility
Fail to do that and there is only one person to blame, yourself./div>
Re: Re:
When they insist on installing crap on my machine I inform them I use linux, suddenly the software is not needed.
Fun when I call tech support too, their scripts are useless so they send a tech out and the squirrel chewed cable line gets fixed much faster./div>
Is this patent non-obvious?
I wonder if the fact they are suing so many companies could be used against them to get the patent invalidated./div>
Re: Re: Rovio? In a court in Texas?
Re: Re:
So you can even make redundant routers/firewalls with automatic failover using open source.
I have replaced all of my Cisco border routers with off the shelf hardware and openBSD.
I use openBGPD too, works great!
Hardware is cheaper, performance is better, configuration is easier and everything is more reliable.
I am very happy without Cisco gear!/div>
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