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When you work for a company that does this, you owe it to your integrity to resign. The government is too incompetent to fix this mess, and market pressure isn
by moultano 14y ago
When you work for a company that does this, you owe it to your integrity to resign.
The government is too incompetent to fix this mess, and market pressure isn't going to do it either. That leaves us, the actual engineers. It's our job to tell the companies we work for that litigating instead of competing isn't acceptable.
- iamumassthrower 14y agoI don't expect that many apple engineers will take a look at the general, vague, and obvious wording of the patent in question and agree that it is general, vague, and obvious. Take 2 otherwise identical people and give them a question where one of them has a personal stake in the answer, while the other one doesn't, and you will generally find that these seemingly rational individuals have come to different conclusions. Such is human nature.
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- ciparis 14y agoPerhaps you should define "this".
- moultano 14y agoUses software patents offensively.
- taligent 14y agoSince you work at Google I am assuming you're going to resign as well ? Because the FRAND abuses originated by Motorola and supported by Google is some of the most disgraceful behaviour seen in the industry since the days of Rambus. You don't participate in the creation of a standard and then turn around and sue companies who adopt those standards in good faith. It undermines the entire industry. If other companies had done this there would be no WiFi, Bluetooth, USB etc. Anyway I assume that you're fully supportive of the FTC/EU investigating Google for anti-competitive behaviour ?
- Zaim3 14y ago"Because the FRAND abuses originated by Motorola and supported by Google is some of the most disgraceful behaviour seen in the industry since the days of Rambus. You don't participate in the creation of a standard and then turn around and sue companies who adopt those standards in good faith. It undermines the entire industry." You do if you're grasping at straws to defend yourself against the initial patent aggressors. Can't really blame them.
- taligent 14y agoNo you absolutely, unequivocally do not. Under any circumstance. Because it sets an example where every tiny little contributor to a standard can hold every implementer at ransom. It would be the unravelling of the entire IT industry.