[Bobboau]

everyone sues Google
It's like every company I hate getting together to revel in the reason I hate them.

[Mars]

Anyone in law? What are the chances this'll get thrown out?

[ssmit132]

I hope Android doesn't disappear - if I ever get a smart phone I want one that runs Android.

[Bobboau]

Anyone in law? What are the chances this'll get thrown out?

problem is it isn't a this, it is a they, there are innumerable separate law suits.

[karajorma]

I actually once saw somewhere that someone said that the quickest solution would be for Google to buy out one of the consortium. Now add that to the fact that someone has been involved in a dirty tricks campaign against RIM (which seems to be an attempt to drive their share price down) and I'm starting to wonder what exactly was going on there.

[achtung]

I don't plan on ever giving Apple, Microsoft, or Oracle a penny of my money if I have anything to do with it. Patent trolling to the max.

[Nuke]

this does not concern me all that much, since i dont like smart phones. well maybe if they eliminated the phone part, i used to like pdas, they could do some awesome stuff. once they turned em all into phones, and required you to have a contract, it essentially made them a pay to use device and completely ruined it for me. but anyway patents are evil. if we abolished every patent office on the planet, out tech level would jump up several points. we would no longer have companies walling off technical sectors from others to exploit and advance. patents were meant for protecting inventions for the sake of the inventor, because individuals do not have the resources to push an invention into production, and cant have anyone steal it while they are trying to sell it to companies. but when its the companies that file the patents, nothing good can come out of it. it is merely an attempt to control an industry.

[Luis Dias]

Google had it coming. They stole every idea from iOS and Microsoft, and were incompetent in dealing with the Java code they pretty much copied from.

Morally I have zero against this. I hate copyright because it is hindering competition rather than protecting it, at the moment at least. So morally I think Android was built more or less how I think people should build software: see what better ideas are out there, use them altogether, create novel ideas if you have specific issues you want to deal with.

But this isn't the rule of the game. And so we have, say, Samsung, which is pretty much grabbing their knowledge of the iPhones and iPads that their factories are helping to manufacture and make outright KIRFS out of them. And then they use Android which is just iOS for those who don't want iPhones. Of course you'll piss off a bunch of people if this your way of dealing with things.

I say, let's vote for the pirate parties and be done with this shenanigans of copyright. Let's dream about a world without people who are convicted to pay millions of dollars for twenty stolen mp3s, let's dream about a world where we can sing all the songs we want without having the RIAA punching our faces. Let freedom ring!

[Thaeris]

Dear... God!

It's like WWI in court:

Let’s see if we can get all of the players and the moves straight. Apple is suing HTC, claiming patent violations. HTC is suing Apple claiming the same thing. Microsoft is joining Apple in suing Motorola. Microsoft has already sued HTC and has been granted a $15-per-phone licensing fee. Microsoft and Apple are suing Samsung. Meanwhile, Oracle is suing everybody who makes an Android phone. Does this sound familiar? It should.