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Summary: Motorola's conflict with Apple is recalled and Apple's patent agenda is criticised for its offensive nature

APPLE is becoming one heck of a bully, especially with patents. Apple will market them as "defensive", but it's clear that Apple is lying, just as many nations label their military "defensive", even when it's imperialistic.

Droid is a best-selling phone (or series of phones) for Motorola and Apple has been suing Motorola (allegedly after Motorola had sued proactively). "Motorola Solutions and Kopin Corporation Announce Agreement to Develop Hands-Free Wireless Computing Headset" says this new press release which makes it make it sound like an admirable achievement when "Kopin's proprietary display and HBT technologies are protected by more than 200 global patents and patents pending." As most people may know, Motorola is also fighting against Microsoft at the moment, over Android and software patents. We will certainly keep track of that and later on we'll show that Microsoft's patent cartel already uses HTC to its advantage. In the mean time, watch how Om Malik, who previously accepted payments from Microsoft for stealth marketing, advises Apple to buy Nuance for patents and a site which is a shrine to Apple monopolies (patents) carries on celebrating new Apple monopolies:

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 18 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. Three of today's granted patents related to great design wins for Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad.

We have criticised this Web site before. Apple's fights against Linux have gone as far as embargo attempts, e.g. against Motorola [1, 2, 3, 4]. This carries on as Apple insists that Linux-powered phones from Motorola should be blocked [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Some nice company, eh?

“Apple's fights against Linux have gone as far as embargo attempts, e.g. against Motorola.”People who promote Apple products are advocating neither freedom nor choice; they merely help a vicious bully, whose Hubris problem is growing bigger as the company becomes harder to topple. Those who refuse to see Apple as part of the threat must be assuming that just because Microsoft is collapsing software freedom is guaranteed to replace it. The reality is, things aren't that simple. ⬆