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Imagine if software developers were held to this standard. Time to find another team of developers. Imagine if consumers held the billion/trillion dollar compa

Imagine if software developers were held to this standard. Time to find another team of developers. Imagine if consumers held the billion/trillion dollar companies to this standard. Time to find another OS. Apple's outside counsel do not take anything for granted. Post a link to the "cupcake" case and let's have a look. iOS is a licensed product. The license only allows iOS to be run on a single "Apple-branded" computer. Here is an earlier version: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/ios6.pdf https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/ios6.pdf The license is interesting because all not the bits that make up iOS are written by Apple nor exclusively licensed to Apple; iOS is not 100% proprietary. What rights does Apple actually have that it can license. Some parts of iOS come from BSD projects, some come from other open source third party projects, some parts come from Apple, the later some of which have been open-sourced. The mere fact of a license does not mean Apple will successfully be able to enforce all its terms. Avoiding legal challenges to them is one way to keep licensees guessing as to their enforceability. Wanna bet whether this case settles before trial. https://opensource.apple.com https://opensource.apple.com

comboy 6y ago
> Imagine if software developers were held to this standard. Time to find another team of developers. > Imagine if consumers held the billion/trillion dollar companies to this standard. Time to find another OS. What is there to imagine? If you are not satisfied with the relationship, you quit. Why would you torture yourself and not do that?
- apple_innocent 6y ago
  Absence of choice. Necessity.
nirushiv 6y ago
Unfortunately I don’t recall the name of the patent troll. Is there a place I can search these cases up? IIRC, Apple’s evidence amounted to repeatedly shouting “they’re obviously a patent troll” (which they were)

comboy 6y ago

> Imagine if software developers were held to this standard. Time to find another team of developers. > Imagine if consumers held the billion/trillion dollar companies to this standard. Time to find another OS. What is there to imagine? If you are not satisfied with the relationship, you quit. Why would you torture yourself and not do that?

apple_innocent 6y ago
Absence of choice. Necessity.

nirushiv 6y ago

Unfortunately I don’t recall the name of the patent troll. Is there a place I can search these cases up? IIRC, Apple’s evidence amounted to repeatedly shouting “they’re obviously a patent troll” (which they were)