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Apple's patent attack

Apple's patent attack

Posted Mar 3, 2010 3:29 UTC (Wed) by russell (subscriber, #10458)
Parent article: Apple's patent attack

Noting that Microsoft's software was not named. Perhaps this is a "suggestion" to HTC from both Apple and Microsoft that HTC shouldn't be playing with Linux.


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Apple's patent attack

Posted Mar 3, 2010 12:21 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

As other commenters have noted HTC's Windows mobile phones are also named,
though distinguished from Android ones, even if Windows itself is not
specifically mentioned.

Apparently HTC only learned about the attack via the Apple press release
and various website reports, that happened before they had been served..

Engadget link - bit.ly'd due to Konqueror long URL breaking annoyance:

http://bit.ly/aLPS0k

Apple's patent attack

Posted Mar 5, 2010 16:50 UTC (Fri) by eparis123 (guest, #59739) [Link]

And when targeting Windows-running mobiles, they referred to the hardware, _not_ the software. So, yes, it's an explicit attack against the Linux mobile stack.

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