• Angry Birds maker in patent suit
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/business-14245047[/url]
Just someone trying to get some money.
[QUOTE=Occlusion;31266151]Just someone trying to get some money.[/QUOTE] You could also say that about the developers as they just did a pallet switch on a flash game.
[url=http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/05/27/lodsys-patent-trolling-starting-to-target-android-app-devs-ok-now-its-personal/]Some info of this "patent troll" called Lodsys.[/url]
Wasn't this in the news months ago? Well, Lodsys suing numerous iOS devs.
For people who didn't read Akasori's link. What Lodsys basically does is buy broad patents that people are infringing on, and then tries to sue them. So, 'patent trolls'.
They added EA, Atari and Take-Two to the list of defendants, LodSys are going down like the Edge games guy
"a company that licenses patents but does not have any other business" oh I bet they have some lovely talented individuals working for them...
These people are everything that is wrong with the world. Greedy fucking cunts
If you didn't read Akasori's link, this: [img]http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/90s_thumb1.png[/img] Is what the patent is for.
[QUOTE=macdoo999;31267391]If you didn't read Akasori's link, this: [img]http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/90s_thumb1.png[/img] Is what the patent is for.[/QUOTE] they should sue apple, that's clearly an iphone prototype
[QUOTE=macdoo999;31267391]If you didn't read Akasori's link, this: [img]http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/90s_thumb1.png[/img] Is what the patent is for.[/QUOTE] That is fucking ridiculous.
I was going to come here and laugh at the dev of angry birds, but reading that link filled me with hatred. What a useless company.
I hope Lodsys looses. What they're doing is EXTREMELY retarded.
This is what the electronics patent wars are boiling down to. "How can we make money off of stopping other people from making neat things?" Some inspiring words from Lodsys's website: :v: "I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." -Thomas Edison "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." -Albert Einstein
Lodsys won't win, Apple has intervened in all the suits with their big-ass legal team
I'm surprised shit like this is legal in the first place.
The patent is gibberish. The first diagram is basically an explanation of how if then statements work. [editline]22nd July 2011[/editline] This is totally badong guys.
I bet he's pretty angry about this lawsuit.
The problem is with patents is that if the accuser has enough money he can't lose, because it takes a lot of money to resist a law suit over years. My Grand Father owned a small business which designed and sold chairs for Barbers and such, he made a pretty penny but then some bigger company stole his design. It costs loads of money to buy patents and even more to sustain a defense against accusations, which he didn't have.
Ugh, why isn't there any laws against this? Like for example, the company registering a patent has to actually have made something of that kind, rather than just squatting it. Or atleast people "violating" the patent should be grandfathered in. Also, I noticed that the names of these companies usually give away that they are patent trolls. For example, i4i (Eye for Eye), and Lodsys which sounds oddly similar to Lulzsec
I don't even know why angry birds is so big :C
[QUOTE=Map in a box;31320457]I don't even know why angry birds is so big :C[/QUOTE] They're cute. Especially the red one.
greedy cunts, there like the superintendant for my school district. she gets 200k per year, and they took money away from the teachers and raised her to 230k per years just cuz "she cant pay for her medicare" fucking bs. we can't do shit in our schools in cali
[QUOTE=Region;31321700]greedy cunts, there like the superintendant for my school district. she gets 200k per year, and they took money away from the teachers and raised her to 230k per years just cuz "she cant pay for her medicare" fucking bs. we can't do shit in our schools in cali[/QUOTE] It's like that all over the country. My old school could afford enough to furnish the arts department with really expensive Macs, but they didn't have enough money to finish repairing the school. The walls now have large sections of exposed drywall.
I always found Angry Birds extremely boring.
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