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This is infuriating. I wasn't even given a letter, but I'd be happy to donate money to a central organization, if there is one, ready to fight these assholes.
by nhangen 15y ago
This is infuriating. I wasn't even given a letter, but I'd be happy to donate money to a central organization, if there is one, ready to fight these assholes.
Patents are bogus, and software patents are even worse. In this case, we're talking about process and not technology. Maybe this is needed to bring light to the issue and perhaps piss Apple off enough that they'll work to invalidate the patent.
- nfriedly 15y agoI'd bet that if Apple doesn't support the developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation will. And the EFF gladly accepts donations: http://www.eff.org/ http://www.eff.org/
- mscarborough 15y agoYes, that's true. But hopefully between Apple/Google/MS/etc there is enough lawyering to not put additional burden on the EFF for a such a generic feature to app markets. Particularly if these companies want to avoid the 'but what if i get sued' stigma.
- click170 15y agoI'd prefer to donate to a central organization aimed at abolishing software patents in general, rather than donating to fight one specific - albeit aggravating - instance of software patent abuse.
- ars 15y agoYou need to work on congress, not Lodsys or Apple. Lodsys is doing what the law lets them. I'm not going to get mad at them for it - I'd get mad at those that let them do it.
- zoul 15y agoThey are being assholes, which is fine as far as the law goes, but still it's a legit reason for being mad at them.
- ars 15y agoIt's pointless, that's how corporations are. It's about as useful as getting mad at a wild animal for acting like an animal. The only time corporations "care" is when their customers want them to (because otherwise they would loose business).
- schrototo 15y agoWild animals don't know what they're doing, the people behind corporations do. Corporations are abstract constructs, but they're run by people. And in this case the people are amoral assholes, extortionists leeching off of the work of others.
- ars 15y agoYes they are, I quite agree. And it's still pointless to get mad at them.
- jamesaguilar 15y agoHow many times have you been mad about something it was pointless to be mad over? I'd guess a lot of times if you're like most people I know. In how many of those instances would it have been helpful for someone to say to you, "Hey, that thing you're mad over? Not useful to be mad about that." Probably not often, if you're anything like me.
- ars 15y agoMy very first post in this thread was a bit more helpful - I told him to redirect his anger toward congress.
- rbanffy 15y agoThe people who run corporations have obligations towards their investors. If they disagree, they may quit, but they cannot run a corporation against the interest of its investors. And, if they quit, someone will replace them. This turns corporations into sociopath-like entities.