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Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C
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."
Patent trolling as usual. Nothing new...
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
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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Yes, whatever happened to Apple's "do no evil"????
I guess we misheard that...must be "(we) do know evil"
Nice strawman.
Btw, Apple products do suck. However, Apple fanbois tend to worry about fashion more than function.
You don't see Steve Jobs with sweaty underarms, do you?
I'd say fatty looks a lot healthier than someone with thr appearance of someone on their way out with AIDS.
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?