Will lie for food

Summary: Oracle's SCO-like litigation against Android (patents and copyrights) faces an angry judge who wants to know who was paid for spin in the media

THE SCO case is nearly dead because there is no chance of survival, reveals Pamela Jones (lots of resultant coverage), who also celebrates a decision by a judge to expose lobbyists like Microsoft Florian. "My dreams are coming true all day long today," writes Jones. "First SCO heads for Chapter 7, and now the very Honorable William Alsup has ordered financial disclosure of any financial ties to commentators and bloggers and both parties must reveal any such by noon on Friday."

To clarify, Techrights was never funded by any of the covered parties or by anyone at all for that matter. It's run at the expense of volunteers who love software freedom and are willing to absorb personal attacks from certain corporate interests. It's a personal sacrifice. We are planning to do an episode, Episode #75, about the audiocast (collaboration with OpenBytes) and Techrights.

"How can a design be patented? Designs are an art."It is worth noting that the to-be exposed lobbyists have also lobbied in favour of other companies, including Apple. Former Apple staff participates also: "The former Apple Inc. (AAPL) graphics designer who invented the smiling computer icon for the original Macintosh testified that the application screen on Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) phones is “substantially similar” to the iPhone design patented by Apple."

How can a design be patented? Designs are an art. And how many phones has the iPhones copied? Here is how absurd this is. Apple's case is very weak, so it sure requires a lot of reality distortion factors. Some are paid for. ⬆