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Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C

Posted by timothy on from the broad-patents-big-problems dept.

Kelson writes "The W3C Widget specification is running into a problem: Apple claims a patent on automatic updates and is unwilling to license it royalty-free in the event that it impacts the spec. The W3C is investigating to determine whether the spec includes anything covered by the patent, and decide what to do."

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  1. Re:Oh, Apple by Z00L00K · · Score: 1, Troll

    Patent trolling as usual. Nothing new...

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  2. Re:I'm confused by geekoid · · Score: 1, Troll

    We are think for ourselves,. you apparently are looking for am excuse to not think. I suggest you find a religious site.

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  3. Re:See! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice strawman.

    Btw, Apple products do suck. However, Apple fanbois tend to worry about fashion more than function.

  4. Re:And do it fast enough for the user not to notic by jupsis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or for applications that are slow and unresponsive all the time.

    That basically is the definition of all Apple products I have used (like the one I am writing this with at the moment). Full of crap and unnecessary features. Which also applies to many other SW vendors and opensource stuff as well. What happened to simplicity?