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Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others
vinodis and several other readers sent along the news that Eolas is suing 23 companies including Apple and Google for patent infringement. The company won $585M from Microsoft in a drawn-out, 9-year battle that the companies settled in 2007; in the course of it the USPTO upheld the "906" patent several times. Now, Eolas is also in possession of a newly-issued patent that they claim covers the use of any browser plugin with AJAX. Let's see how far this lawsuit gets before the Supreme Court plays its wildcard in the Bilski case, which we have been discussing for a while now.
Not necessarily. I could file suit that you stole my house. This is a baseless and invalid claim... just because I filed it (lets say with a great lawyer) does not mean there is any validity to the claim. While it is true that in this case a lawyer could easily argue that there is some basis, the truth is that the lawyer knows there isn't. This is of course impossible to prove and thus nothing will change. The lawyer gets paid, the company keeps filing suits until one wins.
The point is that this is under the SPIRIT of the law this suit is illegal and definitely immoral/unethical. I am of course assuming the lawyers know this is a bullshit suit. If they don't then the company hold all the blame. I don't think its reasonable to assume that not a lawyer or employee of Eolas knows that this is a fraud. Proving that in a court may be impossible but that doesn't mean they aren't breaking various laws.
Just because no one can prove I sped today doesn't mean I didn't.
The problem here is of the legal system's inability to handle malicious lawsuit of ANY type. The high payout of civil suits these days has created predatory lawyers that can prey on individuals and companies that know its easier to settle than fight it out. The legal systems lack of a way to fight this behavior at a reasonable cost, without hiring the very people that profit from the behavior. Even the 'good' lawyers are profiting equally off of these suits.
The better solution for the JVM stuff is to simply never install Java. Since it has security holes, Sun's software is a giant, annoying hog of resources, and no reputable websites even use it anymore. (The third reason is probably a response to the first two reasons.)
God only knows why Apple installs it by default. They hate their customers, I guess.
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Actually, she did not.
And lots of fat, lazy and suehappy americans try to rationalize it later on.
Coffee is SUPPOSED to be boiling hot. Try to get a real on at some point
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?