by _Codemonkeyism on 1/30/20, 5:26 AM with 135 comments
by btilly on 1/30/20, 9:27 PM
I strongly believe that the pursuing of patents gets in the way of the collaboration that helps science progress. It creates evidence of innovation (ie patents), but slows actual innovation.
Anything that gives universities more of an incentive to pursue the patent angle, which this judgment does, will therefore be bad for science. :-(
(In CS, whole areas have become minefields for this reason. For example go out and implement a wavelet compression algorithm for images without violating any patents. Are you sure you didn't violate patents? Really sure? Exactly!)
by bmdavi3 on 1/31/20, 3:02 AM
For anyone that doesn't know, in 2006 Apple was caught off guard and sued by Creative Labs over the iPod, resulting in a $100 million settlement. It was total nonsense and Jobs was right to be pissed, but what does he do? Does he get fired up to bring about patent reform? No! He doubles down on software patents himself and goes on to sue Samsung in the same shitty way in 2011.
I mean, it's too late now to turn the ship around on software patents. It's never going to change. But 2006 - 2011 were prime growth years for Apple, where they could have made a great case to the public for how software patents were bad and used in a totally bogus way against a well liked American company.
And if he didn't want to do that, he could have built up a library of patents to squirrel away for defensive purposes on a rainy day.
But no. He got burned by Creative Labs, hated the experience, and turned around and did the same exact thing to a totally unrelated company.
When it comes to software patents, fuck Steve Jobs and Apple.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/creative-pushed-stev...
by WalterBright on 1/30/20, 10:04 PM
by artemisyna on 1/30/20, 9:18 PM
by pasttense01 on 1/30/20, 6:34 AM
If Apple was simply using devices it purchased from Broadcom, Broadcom should be responsible for all the damages.
by randyrand on 1/30/20, 6:05 PM
by oh_sigh on 1/30/20, 8:34 PM
by sitkack on 1/30/20, 5:09 PM
by JoeAltmaier on 1/30/20, 4:27 PM
by mathattack on 1/31/20, 3:22 AM
by easytiger on 1/30/20, 9:12 PM
by Trias11 on 1/30/20, 8:38 PM
Sounds legit.