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Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market
An anonymous reader writes: Bloomberg reports that Samsung has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission asking them to block the import of Nvidia's graphics chips . This is part of Samsung's retaliation for a similar claim filed by Nvidia against Samsung and Qualcomm back in September. Both companies are wielding patents pertaining to the improved operation of graphics chips in cell phones and other mobile devices.
Paten trolls into hardware trolls - How about you folks go fuck yourselves.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
the consumer comes out ahead in all this, amirite?
Once one has fired a Salvo the other is really obliged to do the same otherwise everyone else will see them as an easy mark. Blame the twat that decided to fire the first salvo and the idiotic patent laws. Samsung appear to be proceeding down the only avenue that the current ridiculous laws allow.
If you complain about no nvidia source code for linux drivers take note - it's because of this stupid patent troll shit that they get subjected to and had to deal with ever since some of the graphics team were at SGI.
The only winning move is not to play.
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that argument only works if Nvidia were the victim here.
The argument works because the software patent system exists instead of it being a copyright system. There should not be any victims or any way it can escalate into the current attempt at a denial of trade.
You mean like Konami v. Roxor, the lawsuit over the Dance Dance Revolution patent that led to a claim construction in Konami's favor?
Honestly nVidia's business practices have been so shady recently, they make what Intel was doing in 2006 look tame. They do everything they can to make as many games as possible run poorly on anything other than nVidia GPUs, including sending employees to game studios to help "optimize" their games. They bribe review sites and "suggest" certain benchmarks to use. Also, thier legal department is more aggressive than Apple's. They deserve to be taken down a notch.
Is there any evidence (or even suspicion) that either side here used either the patent filing or actual stolen technology to create their product? If not then the laws are clearly broken when we are allowing non-revolutionary ideas to be patented.
Try reading my above post again instead of assuming I'm on the side of either Nvidia or Samsung. We lose more from this situation than either of them. Consequences are inflated prices to cover costs of this idiocy and information needlessly kept secret as a result of such idiocy.
It sounds like these guys are taking the concept of competition to ever higher extremes. Is this ever going to end? I, for one, am not eager to see corporate armies taking it to the battlefield. But then, maybe I already missed that train ...
...that the patent system is fubar.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Okay, police are tracking people on their cell phone. So they should know if you're in a car traveling with someone else. So they should be able to make like "facebook friends" of all the people who travel with you. If someone reports your car's license plate, they probably could just feasibly link that to your phone on a simple 1:1 database search and stop you down the road if you're driving erratically.
This makes me wonder how the public could contribute... Has anyone thought of, just for getting a full panopticon feel and a reverse likes of making a website that links bad driving with your license plate number? All you would do is take a video of a car driving bad in front of you, then upload it to a video sharing site, link it with the license plate on a searchable website. Suddenly all the bad driving someone does is now logged permanently on the Internet.
Now cops could "randomly" be browsing the worst offenders, and just "happen to be the the area" (by linking drivers licence to cell phone records against bad drivers within 1 mile of a patrol car), and hand out reckless tickets.
God spoke to me
I'm not endorsing anyone doing this for real. It is just a thought on the ramifications. If they can catch you more often when you do bad driving, would we stop hanging them high, and put lower fines on driving infractions?
God spoke to me
Hey, let's be frank
In technology almost everyone is a thief
Not only in the corporate settings, even in the academia setting thievery thrives --- you do not even need to look far to read stories of professors stealing and patenting students' ideas from himself / herself
And I am speaking from experience ... I had (at least) one idea stolen by my professor(s) and I couldn't do shit about it --- basically I had the choice of litigation (which would linger for ages) against my professor(s) and the university (which means I would never graduate) ...
...
... or I moved on
... by not disclosing any more ideas to anyone until I got my chance to try them out myself and patent them if they turn out to be useful
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Never mind that Samsung usually instigates the suing by stealing other people's shit...
Nothing would make me happier.
From an open source perspective Nvidia is far worse than Samsung with regards to hardware openness.
I mean, I have been very careful over the years to not buy phones, tablets, video cards that are associated with Nvidia in my private computing and professional computing experience.
I urge everyone here to do the same and put your dollars privately in those situations professional consulting can sway your customers opinion towards companies that have open hardware. Even companies who are not open fully, like AMD, but much more so than Nvidia.
Building a great operating system with source code requires open hardware.
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
from getting a GF 960 for Christmas, Samsung is gonna get it.