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You mentioned the difference between big and small company. When Apple had clearly stolen the look and feel of Delicious Library to make iBook. The author was
by yogsototh 14y ago
You mentioned the difference between big and small company.
When Apple had clearly stolen the look and feel of Delicious Library to make iBook. The author was a "small company". He even show some happiness that his work was used by Apple.
The point is, he couldn't have sued Apple. Simply because, actually, a small company could certainly not win over a big one. The big one will use a lot of money to keep the trial as long as possible while continue to steal your stuff. Even if won, it would have last too long to save your business. And you had lost a lot of energy. This remember me the medieval justice were the richer always win.
Actual patent system only give an advantage to big companies.
What if big player start to sue small startups because they used the double-click, the swipe, a wood texture that looks like a library?
- raverbashing 14y agoFunny Apple bought the "coverflow" look from a small company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverflow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverflow
- nirvana 14y agoI wish you were kidding. In the 1990s I worked on software that had the same "look and feel" of the "delicious library". We had shelves and we put things on them, books, CDs, etc, in our software. This was for a seattle software company- the same city that Wil Shipley lived in when he created delicious library. So, can I claim that, because he put books on shelves in his software that he stole the idea from us, when we did it 10 years before him? His claim that Apple "stole" this from him is completely absurd to the point of nonsensical. He couldn't have sued Apple because his claim is nonsense. Just as my claim that he stole our idea of putting books on shelves is nonsense as well. The sad thing is, so many people believe this kind of nonsense. "Hey I put books on shelves in software!" Look how innovative I am! To compare this to patents is beyond reaching.
- chimeracoder 14y agoActually, if you'd had a patent on it, you could claim that, under current law. Some of the software patents being upheld cover far less.