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Originally Posted by Rathji
Azure, do you realize that trashing Apple for suing Samsung, but the applauding people for suing Apple, makes people take your opinion far less seriously than I am guessing you would like them to.
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Was I applauding anyone for suing Apple? I said it was funny how things work when the tables are turned. Apple wanted more money than normally for patent licensing, and yet they bitch when other companies do the same.
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The laws are set up that if you don't play the patent/lawsuit game, you will lose. It is an income stream for these companies, and part of the thing that helps them justify putting money into R&D. Look at the stock prices today based on the rulings, a portion of that value is due to a confirmation (or lack of) of the IP these companies holding, having actual value. If they don't get that value through licensing, then they will get it through lawsuits.
Apple pays $ to MS for Y feature.
MS pays $ to Google for Z feature.
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etc
I am sure you have seen the graph posted somewhere here that shows the huge web of lawsuits of companies protecting their IP. Until the laws get changed, the only thing that it makes sense to be upset about is the laws, not the way any one company follows them.
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Didn't Apple start everything? Not sure, but I saw articles like that other at ZDnet talking about Apple firing the first shot.