Apple and M$ legal trouble

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by anthonycea, Jul 23, 2004.

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    Apple and M$ are in a software lawsuit over autoupdate technology.

    I guess there is a lot of white collar crime in the software business and the lawyers love it.

    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5721441
     
    anthonycea, Jul 23, 2004 IP
  2. mushroom

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    M$ is such a fat target and has been beaten in the past ( Sun nearly 2B$ ) you will probably see a lot more stories like this one in the future.
     
    mushroom, Jul 23, 2004 IP
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    All these Internet patent crap makes me ill. Like that company with the ecommerce patent that goes around suing small companies to extort money out of them. If the patent office would just stop issuing stupid patents this could all go away. Most of these patents used in the lawsuits are ambiguous and nebulous.
     
    Joel Naten, Jul 23, 2004 IP
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    With out the patent crap where would companys like M$ or SCO be ........ Wait strike that second one.
     
    mushroom, Jul 23, 2004 IP
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    Microsoft also owns shares of Apple I believe.
    Software updating technology is important, no matter if they copied or not. Competition keeps innovation strong.
     
    thedude, Sep 24, 2004 IP