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What the Mobile Patent Fight Is All About

Posted by timothy on from the want-to-touch-you-here-and-here-and-here dept.

GMGruman writes "Nokia, Apple, and HTC are all suing each other over mobile patents. Google and Microsoft are also in the game. InfoWorld's Paul Krill explains what the fight is all about: control over multitouch, the technology that enables gesture interfaces on iPads, iPhones, and other smartphones. And he explains the chances that the companies will settle their dispute as they jockey for advantage, why Apple has been playing hardball, and why competitors are fighting back just as hard."

3 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Re:too much cool-aid by Z00L00K · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I flip the bird at the need to smear my phone screen so it's unreadable.

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  2. Re:Chances of others getting cross-license with Ap by daveime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The worst way to sell your Chinese Sweatshop tat is to spam completely unrelated newsgroups, Mr Qinglin Chen of 195 Huangpu Road, Guangdong, China. Let's see what that does to your Google pagerank.

  3. Re:To promote the USEFUL arts by Yvanhoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't see any hacker's solution a la GPL to get out of this situation (GPLv3 tries a bit but doesn't get the momentum needed. Maybe an LGPL version forbidding patents ?). So the only solution that I see is to do some politics. In US support Lawrence Lessig's efforts against lobbying (Fix Congress First) anywhere else, get involved in your local pirate party (International Pirate Party)

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