____/ Mark Kent on Monday 10 March 2008 07:26 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 March 2008 21:40 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 05 March 2008 07:20 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 16:53 : \____
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>>>> Nokia lands another punch on Qualcomm
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>>>| Nokia has won another battle in its ongoing patent spat with
>>>>>>>>>| Qualcomm, though neither side is claiming the war is over.
>>>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/nokia_qualcomm_london_again/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They've also just announced that they'll support Silverlight on one of
>>>>>>>> their Symbian handsets, too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just when you thought Nokia might've been heading the right way...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Incidentally, in the article above, the high court kicked out the
>>>>>>> Qualcomm case on the grounds that the patents were not valid.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One patent lacked novelty, the other didn't have an "innovative step".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It would appear, as has been noted here many times, that the USPTO are
>>>>>>> handing out patents merely because someone is asking for them - the
>>>>>>> danger of a profit centre.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nokia has former Microsofters poisoning the house. They guy who called
>>>>>> Ogg proprietary and recommended DRM is in Nokia, but he came from the
>>>>>> Redmond gang. It's like the BBC story (Erik Huggers et al). Nokia also
>>>>>> has DRM deals and they recently flirted over Windows Mobile (it didn't
>>>>>> work out and Microsoft's unit head jumped the ship shortly afterwards).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A friend of mine is studying this. He's Finnish and he knows people from
>>>>>> the company.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We know how much damage this did to the BBC, that's for sure. We seem
>>>>> to have ex-Microsoft folk all over the place, and they take their
>>>>> straight-line thinking with them.
>>>>
>>>> Someone ought to look at the Library of Congress. It was essentially
>>>> bribed $3 million to become an agent of Microsoft monopolisation. People
>>>> seem to have forgotten about this by now, after initial ourage. The same
>>>> goes for the Boston Public Library.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This kind of corruption relies entirely on people having short memories,
>>> and being able to bury such "news". The best way to fight it is to keep
>>> the memories current, by reposting these items on a regular basis, by
>>> showing the consistent pattern of behaviour, and by exposing it to
>>> everyone we can.
>>>
>>> Libraries should certainly not be pushing proprietary technologies, any
>>> more than the BBC should.
>>
>> Yes, I thought the BBC the other day. They must be laughing all the way to
>> the bank because the press forgot about their little corruptions there with
>> Microsoft. Virtually nothing has changed. An event is needed to bring up the
>> issue again.
>>
>
> We'll keep reminding them...
The iPhone gave the latest call for wakeup (criticism that is). I passed some
E-mails around too. ;-)
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