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Burst.com Sues Apple Over Patent Infringement
AWhiteFlame writes "Techdirt is reporting that Burst.com has filed a lawsuit against Apple for Patent Infringement. From the article, 'Burst.com is known for having patented a method for moving large pieces of content online at faster speeds [...] Last year, they approached Apple, suggesting that the company pay it 2% of iTunes' revenue. Apple then went on the offensive in January, proactively asking a judge to either invalidate Burst's patents or declare that Apple wasn't infringing. Just to make the litigation circle complete, after a few months of trying to reach a middle settlement ground, Burst has now gone ahead and sued Apple on its own.'"
because I'd be a bajillionaire.
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
f*ckedcompany.com is going to list itself soon if this keeps up! All we have to do is look at which companies are suing large money making companies over stupidity patents and you know that companies is going to sink soon! :) Just look at the track record: Rambus? NTP? SCO? I know they're not completely gone yet, but they sure seem headed that way. I'm sure there are more, but they don't come to mind at the moment. It always seems like it's a company's last ditch effort to remain relevant. Sue your way back to profitability. :)
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It's a nice music store you've got. It would be unfortunate if anything should happen to it...
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The sad part is that Burst has already one once against Microsoft
Maybe this time they'll get to two twice.
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M$ is in-love with the technology. In fact they "donated" $60M for such inovative technology.
You mean the detroit with $1.64 billion in construction projects going on right now?. You fail to understand the American nature to adapt and change. Detroit was wounded, seriously, but is recovering. The US economy as a whole is similarly reactive and resiliant. We're not some pissy little island dependent on resources, we've adapted once and we can do it again.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
Wow you sure know your history better than I do. I had NO idea that Apple System 6 had a HTML based Widget technology on the desktop...
LOL. By your own argument you admit that Dashboard ("HTML based Widget technology") is NOT a ripoff of Konfabulator ("XML based Widget technology"). So, which one is it?
Apple has become as bad as Microsoft
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Excuse me, but you must have forgotten that you are posting on
Negative comments about Apple are not allowed. Please revise your post to only present a negative view of Microsoft.
OK now as penance please repeat the following 10 times
Apple is good, Apple is great, they can do no wrong.
and post 5 times with negative comments about Microsoft.