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2010-08-17 , 07:41
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Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
It was just a metaphor, sorry if you didn't understand that.
That's alright. It appears that you didn't quite understand. I answered your metaphors with direct answers to what the metaphors were addressing. I'm sorry that you weren't cognizant enough to detect that.

Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Yep, they did. They also did violate Sun's patents.
You and I don't know that either way. They might have. On the other hand, they might not have. I'd rather wait to see the evidence rolled out and read their arguments to see the details before I presume anything either way. Call it a quirk, if you must, but I prefer to do things that way.

Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
While I don't agree with the existence of software patents at all
We both can agree with that statement.

Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
(there are fortunately no software patents in the EU)
I'm not entirely certain, but I'm pretty sure that the EU has actually managed to begin granting a few EU-wide patents on some software but that they haven't been enforced. I can't find anything on it now but I seem to remember reading something about that a year or two ago.

Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
, but in those unfortunate countries where there are, this is quite legal.
Oops.. it seems you put the parenthesis in the wrong place and left that whole sentence fragment laying out naked, covered in hickies somewhere under a bridge in Amsterdam. Now I'm just being silly, though.

Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Also, I'm missing an antitrust lawsuit against Google. If they could make one against Microsoft some years ago, they should do it with Google, too.
If you're against the patenting of software, I'm not sure you want Google to lose this one, though.