Comments on: With Help From Corrupt Legal System, Apple is Patenting the Competition’s Products, Then Copying Them, Then Banning Them http://techrights.org/2014/06/22/patenting-the-competition/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Michael http://techrights.org/2014/06/22/patenting-the-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-168113 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:46:55 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=78125#comment-168113 You claimed the patent office offers anything special toward Apple, you did not show</strong it. Two very different things. And when you made that whine you were unable to suggest a better way for Apple to protect itself from those who use them as their R&D department. In other words: complaints without a solution.

As far as the quote from Apple, you are simply not understanding what Jobs says. He is very clear:

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. And I think part of what made the Macintosh was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

Jobs is speaking of using ideas from other disciplines: art and poetry and science and history… not of doing what Google and Samsung do an outright copying competitors.

You still have no answer for how Apple should be protecting themselves from such attacks. We are not talking learning from competitors… we are talking about copying other’s ideas and products as much as they can. And that is what Google and Samsung are doing. Instead of just whining why not offer a solution?

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