-=>> JEAN PARROT wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-   
      
    JP>>  Hello, Matt.   
    MM>> I may be actually using a Windows Phone instead.   
      
    JP>>  What a cut-throat business ! Not only they bleed their   
    JP>> customers with the cost of their machines, now they use the very lax   
    JP>>and obviously biased, american courts to mess up their competition.   
      
    JP>>  Buy a Samsun phone just to spite the worm.   
      
    JP>>  Itis a shame that even if they have a very nice machine, the   
    JP>> entrepreneur minds at Cupertino act that way. Who am I to say ???   
    MM> They use patents to prevent innovation in some aspects. I   
    MM> can agree that Samsung should of changed their skins/theme   
    MM> on theirphone user interface, but some of the patents   
    MM> companies have filed recently are for freaking common ideas   
    MM> which seems rather absurd.   
      
    That's why software patents didn't even exist until relatively   
    recently. Software had copyrights, not patents.   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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