throwawaykf02

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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
To save everyone the time, here's a typical Internet thread about Stallman: - He's crazy! - But he's right! - Right? He's just been stating the obvious all this time! - NSA surveillance! - Hadn't anyone heard about
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> Microsoft was hated because they aggressively pushed out competitors in dishonest ways, because they intentionally made it difficult to interoperate with their software through proprietary protocols and file formats, and because they a
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> This somehow makes Google like 90's Microsoft? You should have stopped there. Removing Cyanogenmod may not be it, but the rest of your post just opens it up for pointing out how Google is just like Microsoft. > How many operati
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Ahh, that is very helpful, thanks. So my evaluation of their answer was premature, but I guess no more premature than those who would take it as an indication that "B&N sure showed Microsoft".
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Also, by my dangerously semi-informed understanding, B&N's defense looked really weak (see previous comment on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540902 ). I'd still like a real attorney to weigh
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Hmm, since we're on the topic, and IIRC you have experience in these matters, could you take a quick look at this comment of mine, and let me know if my take on it is inaccurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Hah, even "something that was selling well" is not a description that could be applied to Kin.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
This link, which goes into some detail about the Skyhook lawsuit, paints a starkly different picture: http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la... Google may have allowed Verizon and AT&amp
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
See my comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668578 The situation for the people Gates is thinking of is very, very different from what we can even imagine.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Regarding Asha: I hear Asha is doing crazy well in low-end markets. Not sure how Microsoft can leverage it, but I'm sure they are aware of this.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I'm not sure that was bunk in Nokia's case. When they realized that Symbian had to go, they also realized that the vast bulk of the company was organized around that one OS. And if sources are to be believed, most of that deadweig
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I also mention illiteracy. They lack even the basics to grasp any knowledge they could find online, or the capacity to imagine how they could use it, let alone being aware of what "online" is. My point is that their situation is s
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Many people are making the leap from "access to information" to "better lives" without proper explanation of how that would work. Sure, for us it's obvious, but we're not the demographic Gates is talking ab
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I'm on a mobile device, so I cannot research as much as I'd like, but this is just a patent application, not an issued patent, and more encouragingly, a quick glance at USPTO pair shows that is was abandoned in 2010. It was abando
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Let me argue why I think this is patent is not too bad, and actually interesting in some ways not typically discussed. First here's the broadest claim (formatted for readability): A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
OK, out of curiosity, I actually went ahead and read http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/MSvB&Nanswer.pdf , specifically the parts where they address the patents being asserted. Now, I'm usually used to reading office
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Yes, but the article (and the "sponsored comment" at the end) also say that before the CAFC happened, it was a different, though equally painful, patent mess.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Too late to edit, but as pointed out down-thread, I'd like to note that my use of the word "convicted" in this post was inaccurate, as this was a civil case. The correct wording should have been something along the lines of &
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> How is asserting these patents in court, or using them to get an import ban via the ITC, an example of how the patent system is supposed to work I thought I did so in point 3. (Edit: removed bit about copyright because it could quic
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> First, Motorola's h.264 and 802.11 license demands didn't happen until after Microsoft filed suit[1]. They were asking for a ridiculous rate, but let's get the timing right. You're right. I got the timing wrong be
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
To be fair, something that gets the extreme cases of bill-splitting right probably deserves a patent, if not a Nobel. After all, Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience...
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Not an essay, but did post a slightly more expansive comment just upthread :-)
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
>I find it absurd that FRAND patents are practically valueless They are not really "valueless", but are weaker simply because their holders pledged them to FRAND license terms in order to get them into a standard. Most standa
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
>Please, by all means, explain how demanding the same fee they would for licensing Windows Phone itself[2] for such ridiculously terrible patents is exactly how the patent system is supposed to work. 1. Those are just 5 patents they as
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
As linked above: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac... This is from the same site that published Google's original accusations, so I think it's less likely that it's a PR piece. See
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> My personal belief is that it was copying, yes. There is no other legitimate reason to phone home which results a user clicked on in a competing search engine. It phones home with all the links a user clicks, not just on a competin
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> Microsoft shaking down Android vendors Please can we stop saying this? I can write a whole essay on how licensing patents is the norm in tech industries, and how Microsoft (and Apple) are using patents exactly as they were meant to b
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I did mention that MS "cast the first stone" in the comment I linked. However, if you look deeper, Motorola had started with the outrageous demands (which they got convicted for) even earlier, and MS sued preemptively. They defini
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> Do you have an alternative explanation for how the results for those particular obscure random text strings propagated from Google to Bing? How about this link from the very article you quoted? http://searchengineland.com&
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
See the whole "Bing rips off Google's results" thing. No less than Stephen Colbert fell for it and the truth never got as much publicity. People still believe Bing scrapes Google. Interestingly, the whole thing was instigated

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