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>Business is business Funny, that reminds me of the scorn heaped on Apple for the patent lawsuits against Samsung. Or on Oracle and Microsoft. Business is busi
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>Business is business
Funny, that reminds me of the scorn heaped on Apple for the patent lawsuits against Samsung. Or on Oracle and Microsoft. Business is business, right? Regardless of other companies getting hurt?
Also reminds me of this post by Gruber supporting Apple on in app purchases:
http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/dirty_percent http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/dirty_percent
It's really ironic how people claim their favorite company is better than the others because of blah blah blah reasons, but when it comes to power plays hurting third parties like this, support it by saying "business is business".
- eurleif 14y agoSamsung didn't violate a contract it signed with Apple. The situations really aren't very similar.
- ajross 14y agoNot following at all. Enforcing an existing, voluntary contract is indeed the routine practice of "business" as I understand it. Suing a competitor for patent infringement in an effort to kill its product is not. I don't see a double standard there.