Fucking slashdot.
This is the point in the conversation where you want to quit and give up.
Auto racing causes almost 0.0% of pollution in the world.
I know the actors are bad. Seriously though. Have you ever seen the government take over new powers and not expand them and abuse them? They will here too. What happens when the FCC is controlled by ultra conservative board members and they outlaw tits on the internet "For the public good"? "Think of the children". Do you really think this will not happen? Anonymity will go out the window. Be made illegal.
Again. The current situation sucks. Government will make it worse.
Except the courts are fucking stupid when it comes to tech and it takes years and millions of dollars to get a verdict.
They are bullshit patents and we all know it.
I understand that it is different. You just have to really read what I posted. Apple has products. Therefore they can not technically be "Just a patent troll". They still though can use the patents they have in a trollish manner.
Some of us are nothing but Apple haters. Some Apple defenders. Some can recognize that Apple has products, a right to make them and is still being a douche about their shit patents.
The only thing I can think of that is worse is to give the US government a foot in the door here.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Trolling is the action they are taking, but by the fact that they also have a legit business they are not "A Patent Troll". They are a company that engages in patent trolling when it suits them.
Not because a black squarish phone that you use fingers on the screen was something no one else could think of.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.