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1. Comment - Apple aims to take down Android by court order

   (Mar 2, 2010 - 6:54 PM)

   Oh no! Now that I read this closely, our 1996 WINSERVER (Wildcat! Interactive Net Server), an RPC client/server framework (http://www.santronics.com) is in voilation of Apple's patent - OH CRAP! This can not be allowed. Time to speak to attorney and also write complaints to the FTC.
   
   Apple is trying to take control of centralization and off-loaded telecommunications. People need to see the ONE BBSCON (now called ONE ISPCON) Trade show in 1993/94 where dozens of companies introduced client/server software with special frontends. RIP was one of them. RoboFX was another. We demostranted Gold Xpress, an GUI frontend Offline Mailer. Wildcat! Navigator (our own GUI frontend) was introduced in 1996!, since active today as desktop panel for frontend mail, file, chat IM activity, http://www.winserver.com/public/wcnavigator.wct.
   
   If Apple prevails that means all companies that did this and are doing it more, like Adobe Flex and Microsoft WP7 asnd SilverLight and Google Chrome are victims. Ever wonder why Apple didn't want Flash? It wasn't because that it didn't work on the iPhone, it is because it threaten Apple and with the iPAD comming and Apple seeing that people are crying for Flash Support, Jobs is trying to take as much control now before it becomes a new multi-competitive market for small device frontends, surely to threaten the Apple iEverything network.
   
   WOW!!

2. Comment - Apple aims to take down Android by court order

   (Mar 2, 2010 - 6:41 PM)

   @gasubic. the problem is that 1996 is the new timeline for patented technology. Pre-1996 technology, most could not be patented in the first, does not "exist" per post 1996 patent rules. Seriously some call it the new "technology clock". In short, today, you can patent your farts by simply describing the steps to make and blow one! Being in the telecommunitions market for nearly 30 years, it is really sad to see how companies (anyone really) patent anything simply because everyone else though it was obvious and didn't bother or were not able to because the pre-1996 patent requirements were more stringent. Today, you don't even need to mention prior art until after the fact. Before, you can be fined and charged with a crime for intentional neglect of prior art.

3. Comment - Apple aims to take down Android by court order

   (Mar 2, 2010 - 6:24 PM)

   I'm getting so sick and tired of Apple - talk about Rotten Apples!.
   
   This time, I really hope GOOGLE (and Microsoft) just says, "Ok, you win. Will pay the license" and then let competition take fruit to see who wins.
   
   Apple will shallow their own adam's apple and say '"Ok, what?, No! Wait!" and will violate the US Constitution which allows for american right to licensed usage of patented technolgy in order to build better mouse traps and Apple will attempt to stop everyone without allowing for a license. At that point, it become an Anti-Trust violation!
   
   So GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, right or wrong, give Apple what they wish for and divert your legal fees to paying the Apple license which Apple will have no choice to honor and simply built the better mouse trap.

4. Comment - Firefox 3.5: The need for speed

   (Jul 4, 2009 - 3:04 AM)

   Of course, the irony is that there is still a user base that does not want the insecurity that javascript brings, especially ones that are crossing the ethical borderline of running into the user's privacy space on their machines. Chrome has already stepped into this ethical engineering question - of not providing users even the option to turn it off.