keep digging that grave apple [LWN.net]

keep digging that grave apple

Posted Mar 4, 2010 1:06 UTC (Thu) by briangmaddox (subscriber, #39279)
In reply to: keep digging that grave apple by b7j0c
Parent article: Apple's patent attack

Jobs (and Ellison and ...) have always wanted to be like Gates. They don't
hate Gates because of his business practices. They hate Gates because he
became so successful and rich with his business practices.

I have to wonder if this sudden patent attack is also motivated by Apple
knowing that they're in a bad position should Jobs' health finally fail him.
The entire company pretty much hinges on Jobs being there. Maybe his recent
high-profile health problems are putting enough pressure on Apple to go on
this offensive before he finally leaves for good.

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keep digging that grave apple

Posted Mar 11, 2010 0:46 UTC (Thu) by DRJO (guest, #64278) [Link]

The open source community just doesn't get it. Rather than lament what companies are doing to stifle creativity re: patents - the open source community must instead use patents themselves as a weapon. The Linux community could patent literally thousands of patents owned by the open source community and shut down any hope of patents from commercial companies...indeed Linux itself is a framework for invalidating a lot of these patents. Think about it...

DRJO