Re: If you can't beat them, sue them.

DanS

Alias <aka@masked&anonymous.com.¡nval¡daditos> wrote in
news:i87ffv$n53$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic.../Update_Micros
> oft_sues_Motorola_over_Android_phones
>
> Another example of MS trying to take it all and be the
> monopoly in smartphones where their market share is nil.
> Well, except for Frank, of course, who will buy the Win 7
> phone as soon as it's out.
>

".... The patents at issue relate to a range of functionality
embodied in Motorola’s Android smartphone devices that are
essential to the smartphone user experience, including
synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal
strength and battery power...."

What a joke, patenets regarding synchronizing
email/calendars/contacts ?

IP patents are way out of hand. How many ways are there to sync
data like this ? ...'Is this data newer, or is that data...that
data is, so let's copy it to this device'... I can see if actual
MS source code is used somewhere, or binary libraries (.dll
files) "owned" by MS, but that's highly unlikely.