Comment Wine (Score 1) 186
I hope they get the investment. Wine will probably also benefit from the development of ReactOS.
These companies have payed millions of dollars to buy patents. HTC didn't buy the IP therefore it has to pay a licensing fee.
I'm not a hater so the point of my question wasn't that Apple's claim is baseless (I honestly don't have the knowledge to take a position here since I haven't done any research). I agree that companies should be rewarded for their innovations but the patent system is so messy with the trolls and everything that I naturally take this kind of news with a grain of salt.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.