Thread: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
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gerbick
2011-02-27 , 22:04
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Originally Posted by mishmich View Post
Did Jobs pay for the linux stuff he used in developing NeXT and OSX?
Did Gates pay off Lotus 123 or SuperCalc for Excel?
Did Gates pay Sybase for MS.SQL?
Did Gates pay Novell for the networking stack in Windows NT?
Did Gates pay WordPerfect, IBM or WordStar for Word?
Did Gates pay Harvard Graphics for PowerPoint?
Did Jobs pay Xerox Park when Apple brought out the Mac?
Did Gates pay Apple when they brought out Windows?
If you want me to defend Gates or Microsoft, you're either on some serious meds and/or meth. I won't ever do that. Microsoft ripped off a lot of folks to get where they're at now.

And look who just got into bed with them... Nokia.

When it is corporate and proprietary, it is called IP, even if the idea was pinched. When it is Open Source, it is called something else. The main difference is the funds available to pursue aggressive litigation that enforces acknowledgement of IP.
Erm... thanks for stating the obvious? As it stands - and somehow you didn't read what I stated at all - your complaints are heaped up against the pile of folks that are for restructuring the patent office.