[left]Android is on fire. More than 550,000 Android devices are activated every day, through a network of 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers. Android and other platforms are competing hard against each other, and that’s yielding cool new devices and amazing mobile apps for consumers.
But Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.[/left]...
[left]They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the “Rockstar” group including Microsoft and Apple), to make sure Google didn’t get them; seeking $15 licensing fees for every Android device; attempting to make it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android (which we provide free of charge) than Windows Phone 7; and even suing Barnes & Noble, HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it.[/left]...
[left]They want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation.[/left]...
[left]Posted by David Drummond, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer[/left]...
זה לטעמי הולך להיות הנושא המרכזי בעולם המובייל בתקופה הקרובה. עושה רושם שגוגל מסירים את הכפפות ויוצאים לקרב הזה כנגד גל התביעות הזה, כאשר המטרה הראשונה שלהם היא להשיג את דעת הקהל, את "העם".....הסיסמה של גוגל כלפי אותם תובעים היא: [left]If You Can’t Beat Them Sue Them[/left]
איזה עונת מלפפונים
הנה הקישור לכתבה בבלוג הרשמי של גוגל:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/ ... droid.html
