Apple licenses UI tech as part of settlement
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| Settling a patent dispute that was brewing in the District Court for
| the Eastern District of Texas with respect to certain, unnamed
| Apple products, Acacia Research has announced that Apple will
| now license specific GUI technology from its IP Innovation
| subsidiary.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/06/15/apple.licenses.ui/
Browser wars: Mozilla exec calls Steve Jobs 'out-of-date'
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| Mozilla won't go away just because Jobs wills it, said Lilly, and he was
| irked at the Apple CEO's attitude. "Today's connected world is no longer
| constrained by the monopolies and duopolies and cartels of yesterday's
| [software] distribution," said Lilly. "The Web belongs to people, not
| companies.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9024941&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/22ylqu
Related:
Apple failing to understand open source
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| There is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that
| cost is loss of goodwill in the community. That loss is more
| expensive in the long run than Apple realizes.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/apple_failing_to_understand_op.html
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