____/ 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.
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