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Re: [News] Nokia Plays Dirty with Patents and Betrays Web Standards

____/ 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.

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