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The irony is that they're able to stop all their security updates, even self-destroy with their home-calling mechanisms. I'd love it if Motorola went all-in ab
by muyuu 15y ago
The irony is that they're able to stop all their security updates, even self-destroy with their home-calling mechanisms.
I'd love it if Motorola went all-in about it.
- taligent 15y agoI bet you would love it. But think about it. Motorola can now extort ridiculous royalties from every company that provides: DVD Players, Projectors, Video Cameras, Digital Cameras, Smartphones, Tablets, Operating Systems, Browsers, Portable Media Players, Consoles, TVs, Media Centers, PVRs.
- muyuu 15y agoThe current situation is a joke. No small player can get above the radar at basically anything software or else they risk being sued out of business. Big players calculate their movements because they all have a big portfolio and they reach agreements. Most people cannot resort to this. Hopefully a clusterfuck between two industry giants will cause a fundamental change in the rules of the game. I wish all the devices you mentioned would be outlawed overnight to force a decided reaction. I'm willing to go full OSS and open formats, I'm mostly there anyway. Remember static GIFs? Here's hoping they do enforce all these patents to the fullest.
- beagle3 15y agoYes! And they should! The reply people on HN have been giving about these issues is "Don't hate the players, hate the game". I say it's a false dichotomy. You can hate both the game and the players. But I love players who, like Motorola is doing here, demonstrate that and make everyone hate the game.