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1. Jan Wildeboer

   #apple patents "inspired" by existing 3rd party work? Or plain stealing? You decide. http://is.gd/e5wxH #swpat #1984 #ministryoftruth

   Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:44:35 UTC from pino at Munich, Bavaria, Germany
   • Fabian Scherschel

     @jwildeboer Great artists steal.

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:47:50 UTC
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   • Jan Wildeboer Fabian Scherschel

     @fabsh artists don't file patents ..

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:48:16 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel

     @jwildeboer Aparently they do these days.... :(

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:50:01 UTC
   • Jan Wildeboer Fabian Scherschel

     @fabsh #apple is a company, not an artist group ;-) If they want to patent ideas of others they #fail. check etoy.com for real artists ;-)

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:54:16 UTC
   • Jan Wildeboer Fabian Scherschel

     @fabsh "MISSION ETERNITY - an ultra long term project that allows pioneers of the information age to travel space and time forever..." #etoy

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:55:35 UTC
   • laurelrusswurm

     @jwildeboer sadly corporations own copyrights

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:55:42 UTC
   • Alexandre Oliva

     @jwildeboer does the existing app do anything like what the application's claim 1 describes? (does anyone know?)

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:56:08 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel

     @jwildeboer I know. They say they are artists, though. ;)

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:56:11 UTC
   • Alexandre Oliva

     @jwildeboer http://news.swpat.org/2010/03/transcript-tridgell-patents/ is a great speech that I gather Futuretap folks should watch

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:58:51 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel

     @jwildeboer Sounds like something I need. They've been reading Asimov, I guess.... ;)

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 06:59:42 UTC
   • Jan Wildeboer Alexandre Oliva

     @lxoliva the 21 claims in that patent are so overly broad that a lot of existing apps will be infringing should this be granted-

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 07:00:21 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Alexandre Oliva

     @lxoliva Yeah, Tridge rocks... :)

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 07:00:58 UTC
   • Alexandre Oliva

     @jwildeboer only claim 1 really matters here, the others are dependent on it or on variants. looks like you could watch the speech too ;-)

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 07:06:43 UTC
   • Alexandre Oliva

     @jwildeboer so the important question is whether WhereTo? or another phone app or svc would SMS-on-power-on before 2009-12-18

     Friday, 06-Aug-10 07:09:56 UTC