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____/ Peter KÃhlmann on Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 13:14 : \____
> Ezekiel wrote:
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>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:7441063.tdPhlSkOF2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> Multitouch hack for Nexus One
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>>> | According to sources, Google was forced to
>>> | remove multitouch functionality from the
>>> | Nexus One because Apple owns patents
>>> | covering its use in mobile devices.
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> http://www.top10.co.uk/mobilephones/news/2010/01/multitouch_hack_for_nexus_one/
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>> Riiiiight. Apple is so mean and bad.
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> Apple *is* mean and bad.
> And they don't mind at all using other companies patented stuff without
> having a licence
>
> Apple is a lot worse than MS in that respect
Here is Apple shooting down Ogg, so that we can't access video content easily:
Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web
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| But remember, that's not what Nokia is objecting to: they are arguing that
| Ogg is proprietary (it isn't) and that DRM should be part of a Web standard
| (it shouldn't).
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
And a more recent incident:
Apple Patent Exclusion on Widgets 1.0: Updates
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JanMar/0654.html
Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/07/1654220
Apple Computer's Statement on the Draft W3C Patent Policy
http://www.apple.com/about/w3c/
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