I don't think this company knows what a standard is because they seem to fight them every chance they get. They think they're getting brownie points for being "Pro Consumer", but as always they just end up looking like fools in the end. This is nothing but a PR campaign to prop their lousy browser back into relevance after being embarrassed repeatedly by Chrome.
Google's results aren't exactly good these days, and they've proven themselves to be far more at the chaotic evil end of the spectrum when it comes to personal data.
And let's face it, nobody knows about DuckDuckGo.
And let's face it, nobody gives a shit about DuckDuckGo except paranoid idiots. These are the same idiots that have no problem freeloading on services provided by Google, etc because they think they're entitled. They foolishly think they're being clever by going out of their way by using services like DuckDuckGo or browser plugins to cover their tracks, but what they fail to realize, in their infinite wisdom, is that they think they've already been proactively tagged and tracked by their ISP and cell phone carrier who sell their information to the highest bidder.
So, the next time you think you're being clever by using some 'alternate' search engine because it gives you a false sense of security of not being tracked, be sure to also cancel your ISP and Smartphone contracts and stay off the grid otherwise you're just living in a fantasy world.
You can bet all of those complaints are from Microsoft's family of shill companies. They can't compete from a technology point of view so they complain to the EU about their incompetence. It's about time Google goes ballistic on Microsoft and exposes them for the dirt bag company they really are.
So it's okay for Apple to label Samsung a copycat for creating icons that look similar to iPhone icons, but when you rip off someone else's design VERBATIM you're not? This company has become so brazen that they'll now plagiarize without any attribution or compensation.
I knew something was fishy when I clicked on the link and was taken to a badly designed Apple inspired website circa 2001 from an alleged iOS and Mac developer as well as a "UI & UX designer". Although, I hope no one has hired him for the latter.
So after these Rats cherry pick the Nortel patents they individually wanted they then form a proxy company to deflect any negative press from them when this patent troll starts shaking down companies with the stipulation that they have no obligation to licence their patents for fair and reasonable terms. Unfortunately, everyone is aware of this proxy company and these companies will not be able to wash the stink off them should a high profile battle ensue.
It doesn't matter anyway. There were only nine lines of copied code and the only reason it was there is because the guy that submitted it originally to openJDK is the same guy that put it in Android. The judge learned java for this trial and even he said he could have wrote rangeCheck in a few minutes and had even done so accidentally many times.
Suck it, Oracle. You lose. Good day, sir!
Judge Alsup did not learn Java for this trial. He's a math major and was already familiar with other programming languages.
Google has a long history of trying to weasel out of agreements and payments just because they're 'Google'. In turn, Microsoft spends billions an year towards their R&D (Microsoft Research). They also work with the pioneer in the industry, Nokia, which has developed pretty much all the technology we base mobile phones today on. They deserve to be paid.
Not only do I see victory for justice, but a long term crackdown on Google's illicit business practices. It is time to step up and show Google the door. If you cannot do business honestly, don't do it at all.
Justifiably, you were marked for the troll that you are. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist (US vs Microsoft), a stealer of IP and code (Stacker, i4i), a saboteur of companies (Wordperfect/Novell) and a financial backer to SCO. They're also anti-open standards as evidenced by the people they tried to pay off to try and ratify their failed document format standard. As for their R&D - all I see from their labs are useless kinect experiments that have no practical or commercial value.
So if I take an existing OS (Android in this case) under GPL and I alter for greater security, does that have to be release too if all I'm doing is some sort of internal release? I'm sure this has been answered to death with Linux but just curious.
The Linux part of Android is under the GPL. The other is under the Apache License.
iOS is nice, but it's getting rather dated. The use of fake leather trim, paper and linen textures make it look rather silly today. Of course, those big jelly bean buttons aren't helping it either.
When every Android device is now going to look alike, wouldn't the general customer base be a little more likely to buy an Android device from the company that *makes* Android?
Holo has to be installed. It doesn't have to be the default.
The developer can choose to use Holo regardless of the skin the OEM has used.
Whenever I hear the words Microsoft and smartphone in a sentence together I'm always reminded of this Internet classic where Ballmer laughs at the iPhone.
Here are some choice quotes from this discombobulated silverback:
"$500 fully subsidized with a plan [while laughing like a wounded hyena] - I said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine"
"I like our strategy I like it a lot"
"We're selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year Apple is selling zero phones a year"
"In six months [Apple] will have the most expensive phone, by far ever, in the market place and let's see how the competition goes"
Let all those Android device makers under several patent assaults from the like of Microsoft and the like do this:
Remove the "infringing" functionality from your phones but create publicity that the features are available through an extension-like add-on like similar to Firefox or Google's Chrome browser.
Then let's see who these patent litigants will sue. How about that?
6 of the Microsoft patents were thrown out and only 1 was upheld. The more Microsoft patents that can be identified as worthless the better. And the ones that are found to be infringing on their generic and prior art ridden patents they'll just work around it with another implementation of the functionality.
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I don't think this company knows what a standard is because they seem to fight them every chance they get. They think they're getting brownie points for being "Pro Consumer", but as always they just end up looking like fools in the end. This is nothing but a PR campaign to prop their lousy browser back into relevance after being embarrassed repeatedly by Chrome.
Google's results aren't exactly good these days, and they've proven themselves to be far more at the chaotic evil end of the spectrum when it comes to personal data.
And let's face it, nobody knows about DuckDuckGo.
And let's face it, nobody gives a shit about DuckDuckGo except paranoid idiots. These are the same idiots that have no problem freeloading on services provided by Google, etc because they think they're entitled. They foolishly think they're being clever by going out of their way by using services like DuckDuckGo or browser plugins to cover their tracks, but what they fail to realize, in their infinite wisdom, is that they think they've already been proactively tagged and tracked by their ISP and cell phone carrier who sell their information to the highest bidder.
So, the next time you think you're being clever by using some 'alternate' search engine because it gives you a false sense of security of not being tracked, be sure to also cancel your ISP and Smartphone contracts and stay off the grid otherwise you're just living in a fantasy world.
Not to mention Linus Torvalds came up with the long file name solution way before Microsoft patented it.
And Microsoft has already been found to be infringing on Motorola patents in Germany.
You can bet all of those complaints are from Microsoft's family of shill companies. They can't compete from a technology point of view so they complain to the EU about their incompetence. It's about time Google goes ballistic on Microsoft and exposes them for the dirt bag company they really are.
So it's okay for Apple to label Samsung a copycat for creating icons that look similar to iPhone icons, but when you rip off someone else's design VERBATIM you're not? This company has become so brazen that they'll now plagiarize without any attribution or compensation.
The trial start date is March, 2014. Too bad all of these devices will be at end of life. Suck it Apple, you MoFo's.
I knew something was fishy when I clicked on the link and was taken to a badly designed Apple inspired website circa 2001 from an alleged iOS and Mac developer as well as a "UI & UX designer". Although, I hope no one has hired him for the latter.
The "World's most advanced mobile operating system"
I thought the Apple plan was to deliver gimped versions of iOS, with missing features, to phones below the current version?
So where do I download this Android iOS?
So after these Rats cherry pick the Nortel patents they individually wanted they then form a proxy company to deflect any negative press from them when this patent troll starts shaking down companies with the stipulation that they have no obligation to licence their patents for fair and reasonable terms. Unfortunately, everyone is aware of this proxy company and these companies will not be able to wash the stink off them should a high profile battle ensue.
It doesn't matter anyway. There were only nine lines of copied code and the only reason it was there is because the guy that submitted it originally to openJDK is the same guy that put it in Android. The judge learned java for this trial and even he said he could have wrote rangeCheck in a few minutes and had even done so accidentally many times.
Suck it, Oracle. You lose. Good day, sir!
Judge Alsup did not learn Java for this trial. He's a math major and was already familiar with other programming languages.
Google has a long history of trying to weasel out of agreements and payments just because they're 'Google'. In turn, Microsoft spends billions an year towards their R&D (Microsoft Research). They also work with the pioneer in the industry, Nokia, which has developed pretty much all the technology we base mobile phones today on. They deserve to be paid.
Not only do I see victory for justice, but a long term crackdown on Google's illicit business practices. It is time to step up and show Google the door. If you cannot do business honestly, don't do it at all.
Justifiably, you were marked for the troll that you are. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist (US vs Microsoft), a stealer of IP and code (Stacker, i4i), a saboteur of companies (Wordperfect/Novell) and a financial backer to SCO. They're also anti-open standards as evidenced by the people they tried to pay off to try and ratify their failed document format standard. As for their R&D - all I see from their labs are useless kinect experiments that have no practical or commercial value.
Yes, you are confused. Microsoft continued to call their implementation Java. Google does not call their version Java and, thus, has no obligation.
And yet they still allow for Snakes on a Plane.
So if I take an existing OS (Android in this case) under GPL and I alter for greater security, does that have to be release too if all I'm doing is some sort of internal release? I'm sure this has been answered to death with Linux but just curious.
The Linux part of Android is under the GPL. The other is under the Apache License.
the new US District Court of Eastern Texas.
Larry is a sleazeball.
FTFY
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iOS is nice, but it's getting rather dated. The use of fake leather trim, paper and linen textures make it look rather silly today. Of course, those big jelly bean buttons aren't helping it either.
When every Android device is now going to look alike, wouldn't the general customer base be a little more likely to buy an Android device from the company that *makes* Android?
Holo has to be installed. It doesn't have to be the default.
The developer can choose to use Holo regardless of the skin the OEM has used.
Unless you've personally verified every single line of code in the OS, you're not really better off.
Even if you do, you're not sure. Your compiler may be compromised. See: Reflections on trusting trust.
This is why you always code in machine language!
Whenever I hear the words Microsoft and smartphone in a sentence together I'm always reminded of this Internet classic where Ballmer laughs at the iPhone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
Here are some choice quotes from this discombobulated silverback:
"$500 fully subsidized with a plan [while laughing like a wounded hyena] - I said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine"
"I like our strategy I like it a lot"
"We're selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year Apple is selling zero phones a year"
"In six months [Apple] will have the most expensive phone, by far ever, in the market place and let's see how the competition goes"
Let all those Android device makers under several patent assaults from the like of Microsoft and the like do this:
Remove the "infringing" functionality from your phones but create publicity that the features are available through an extension-like add-on like similar to Firefox or Google's Chrome browser.
Then let's see who these patent litigants will sue. How about that?
6 of the Microsoft patents were thrown out and only 1 was upheld. The more Microsoft patents that can be identified as worthless the better. And the ones that are found to be infringing on their generic and prior art ridden patents they'll just work around it with another implementation of the functionality.