Oletros

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by Oletros 11y ago
> For free. Otherwise we have another Antitrust situation, like here.) Which anti trust situation?
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by Oletros 11y ago
> — Closed creates markets (see Macintosh and iPhone); What market created the iPhone? And after reading all the "article", it is only another Kirk article about how good Apple is and how bad are the others
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by Oletros 11y ago
It is clear that you don't j=know what an API is if you say that a web API like Goole Maps or Beeminder is not a library API. Or perhaps you're just trolling
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by Oletros 11y ago
Quarterly report will tell, until then, it is only speculation
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by Oletros 11y ago
> It's not that they're not APIs (you can call anything you want an API -- copyright law doesn't care what it's called), but because they don't have a fixed form. In order to copyright something you need it to be
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by Oletros 11y ago
I don't know what is more out of reality and funny, Daniel Eran Dilger or the people in the forums. Sometimes I think that Appleinsider is a strange social experiment
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by Oletros 11y ago
> The OP is absolutely correct when he says that fines are the cost of doing business Perhaps is correct is it is the cost of doing business BREAKING the law, but it is wrong when the OP says that it is the cost just for operating in a p
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by Oletros 11y ago
> 2/3) You're right. A fine isn't a tax. Now assume you are a nation state and some foreign entity is making a shit ton of money off your population. Still waiting a proof that it is because an American company > 5) Ask
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by Oletros 11y ago
> However you want to call it, unlike a "proper" API, it is not of the right form to be copyrighted, regardless of the ruling pertaining to "proper" APIs. Still waiting an explanation about web API's not being a
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by Oletros 11y ago
> The fine was stupid when it was issued and it's ramifications were stupid when they forced Windows 7 N into existence. This is just opinion > If you view the fine as a tax it all makes far more sense It is not a tax, so it does
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by Oletros 11y ago
> Countries will make up taxes for foreign companies just because they can. Microsoft EU settlements being a prime example. What has to do Microsoft N with taxes?
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by Oletros 11y ago
> That's only because the term "API" -- until very recently -- was only used to describe language-level API, while what today is known as a web API has always been called a protocol, so don't let the recent overloadin
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by Oletros 11y ago
> Google then created an implementation of (a part of) the spec, and didn't reach a licensing agreement with Sun If Google used Apache Harmony, the ones implementing it where Apache Foundation. Why Oracle didn't sue Apache? &g
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by Oletros 11y ago
> [1]: I am willing to bet that very few people understand what the Oracle v. Google court case is all about, And what it was about?
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by Oletros 11y ago
> If we see Google specifically didn't choose OpenJDK to avoid GPL. As far as I know, when Android started to be developed, OpenJDK didn't exist
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by Oletros 11y ago
> I'd sooner believe that something's wrong with the closing of the bug report than something's wrong with my understanding of how this is still a bug Occam's razor plays against you.
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by Oletros 11y ago
And? Like all the usuals suspects like Microsoft and Apple.
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by Oletros 11y ago
> but they still hold all the data unencrypted, no? I think no
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by Oletros 11y ago
> Patents are usually pretty broad mmm, no
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by Oletros 11y ago
> I wonder how much Ericsson is paying Apple for _their_ portfolio Why Ericsson should pay Apple?
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by Oletros 11y ago
> But I don't see how what MU did is not okay, but what YouTube and Spotify did is fine. What Spotify did?
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by Oletros 11y ago
Now tell me what has to do Stagefright with the implication that Google Play is not secure as the OP did. Or are you just posting the first thing you find in Google withouts knowing what it means?
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by Oletros 11y ago
> the Touch ID is not some scary security breach wannabe like those found in androids. I suppose that you will provide some examples of those security breachs
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by Oletros 11y ago
> retina displays, personal assistants, fingerprint scanning, 5ghz wifi No (Toshiba), no, no (Motorola) and no (at least there was one smartphone, Galaxy S3, that had 5GHz wifi) Funny how then you put the disclaimer about "being com
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by Oletros 11y ago
> Apple Pay, Force Touch, Touch ID etc. Yes, those Apple things were first shown on an iPhone. It doesn't means that those technologies were first shown on the iPhone
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by Oletros 11y ago
> Everybody seems content chasing the iPhone I think that he starts with a wrong hypothesis
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by Oletros 11y ago
> Would the Apple Store (which probably has a much higher cost base than a normal Apple reseller) make any profit? If not, why should they pay corporation tax? You're joking, isn't?
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by Oletros 11y ago
> Insulted? Apple paid taxes on foreign earnings by foreign branches in the countries where earnings occurred Apple some year has declared losses in Spain, so they have have tax benefits. They didn't paid any tax but they have recei
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by Oletros 11y ago
The Universe is not infinite
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by Oletros 11y ago
Space and time started with the BB

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