Bogus Software Patents Used Against Google Because Android(Linux)+Services Are Winning
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-06-26 14:03:19 UTC
Modified: 2010-06-26 14:03:19 UTC
Summary: As Google claims to be spreading over 1 million Linux-based phones per week, Apple which is a self-admitted 'thief' is suing again and Frontier Communications does too -- using a patent whose description Frontier distorts
Oh, and if you want to see how continuation patents are abused, you can check out the original patent application, which focuses on something quite different than the eventual patent. It's much more about switching calls from one line to another. It's only in the later patent (not filed until well after Google Voice was widely established in the market), that Frontier made the patent sound a lot more like what Google Voice actually does.
That's not a concrete patent. It's software-implemented and it's inspired by real-world equivalents.
Even the most ardent defenders of the current patent regime expect the Court to strike down "business method" patents. The big question will be if the Court goes even farther and delivers a broader decision affecting software patents and other controversial forms of patent monopolies.
If the Web gets polluted or flooded by slopfarms such as these, and Slashdot then sends traffic so these slopfarms (Slashdot probably doesn't do this intentionally), then real writers with real knowledge of GNU/Linux will lose the spark for publishing
Those of us who actually want to reform the industry and put users in control of their systems/devices will recognise that "Open Source" was selling a lie or got-co-opted by liars
Comments
faltu
2010-06-26 14:15:34
they call it "MonoFree" lol