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Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute
An anonymous reader writes "HTC and Apple have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties. The terms of the settlement are confidential. From the article: '"HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation," Peter Chou, HTC's chief executive, said in a statement.
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, also expressed relief in a statement. "We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation," he said.'"
Perfect summary of every Android device.
Did you finish farting out all of tim cook's semen before you posted this, or are you clenching so you can spew from a different hole?
Note the modding abuse. Giving the correct definition of a patent troll gets modded "off topic". The person misusing the term "insightful". How low slashdot has stooped.
Yep. Used to be that Slashdot was merely overrun with misguided linux fanboys pontificating on things that they somehow believed they were experts in (politics, religion, etc) in between bouts of chronic masturbation.
Nowadays, Slashdot is overrun with loudmouth fandroids who are on some kind of god-given mission to prove to everyone around them that Android is The Way and the Truth (or something like that) in between bouts of chronic masturbation.
Having spent the last ten-odd years hanging around slashdot, I feel comfortable making the observation that while the linux fanboys were occasionally annoying, they were on the whole actually intelligent and occasionally had insightful things to say. The fandroids, though, are merely chronic masturbators.
And since I've spent the last decade here amassing a pretty healthy karmic war chest, I can afford to get modded down once in a while.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
Nowadays it's Foxconn that creates the products. Apple just tells them how many rows they should add when they increase the version number.
You need to put down the crack pipe, AC. That's about the most retarded thing I've heard anyone on slashdot say, today.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
Unfortunately, on Slashdot, "patent troll" means "company I don't like using their patents".
Apple and Microsoft often get labeled as patent trolls despite the fact that they invest large (and, by that, I mean ENORMOUS) amounts of resources in R&D and actually create numerous products but now it's cool to dislike them so, patent troll it is.
Samsung, however, who utilizes their FRAND patents in anti-competitive ways are cool so their "victims of patent abuse". It's how things work on Slashdot now.
I mean, really - I knew as soon as I saw the news that Apple and HTC had come to a licensing agreement that, somehow, Slashdot's crowd would find some way to vilify Apple and the majority of the comments in this thread bear that out. They reach a licensing agreement to mutually share their patents (current and future) with another company and somehow they're still perceived as the villain.
Deliberate production caps on new releases just so they can say they sold out.
Citation, please. Provide it or shut the fuck up.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
Unfortunately, on Slashdot, "patent troll" means "company I don't like using their patents".
This.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.