Somebody is in for a whipping

Oracle Deletes Blog Post Showing CEO’s Approval of Java in Android | Android Community

As a follow up to my previous post about "big" companies arguing like little kids, things are turning a wee bit nasty. Deleting an ex-CEO's blogpost seems like obstruction of justice to me. Like hiding the murder weapon.

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Corporate idiots

Apple sues HTC
Oracle sues Google
Samsung sues Apple
Apple sues Samsung


I'd think the entire patent system is flawed from the root. Eg:

This is Apple's U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647

A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from an application running concurrently data having recognizable structures, uses a pattern analysis unit, such as a parser or fast string search function, to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. The application program interface communicates with the application running concurrently, and transmits relevant information to the user interface. Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a detected structure, present the linked candidate actions. Upon selection of an action, the action processor performs the action on the detected structure.

I'd think any lawyer worth his salt can argue pretty much any electronic device with a digital touchscreen display to conform to the above statement. It's pretty sad to see the giant companies of the technology frontier are bickering away like this over what ought to be minor issues easily settled out-of-court.

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