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Dang it. Any big company that settles with these crooks instead of fighting deserves to be the target of every troll under every bridge in the world. Thanks to
by WildUtah 13y ago
Dang it. Any big company that settles with these crooks instead of fighting deserves to be the target of every troll under every bridge in the world.
Thanks to CBS, NBC, HowStuffWorks, EFF, and TogiNet for continuing to fight against the insanity. Respect at least to Apple for fighting this at the district level (though they lost and settled before appeals). Shame to the courts that make it so hard to challenge validity of obviously fraudulent patents before a jury.
- rpedroso 13y agoThe article points out that SanDisk's Sansa MP3 player accounted for < 2% of the company's bottom line in 2010. If Apple, for whom music players account for much more revenue, could lose a lawsuit against Personal Audio LLC, then it would be financially silly for SanDisk to go to court over its relatively small product. While I'd like the diminished of the patent-legislation business model, it's hardly fair to blame companies for folding to these tactics. They're victims, much like the consumers who end up paying higher prices as a result.