I was thinking the same. The primary factor to consider buying RIM has to be it's patent portfolio. Sure, RIM has useful technology too, but right now, for all the patent crazy companies, it's just patents.

We have seen sparks of the war, but I want a patent lawsuit armageddon out there where no one is able to sell mobile phones anymore. That's the only outcome - a complete gridlock - which will wake up morons like Apple, Microsoft and whoever else is initiating the game forcing everybody else to play along.

Like how you are a fanboi is a fact, but whether you are an asshole too or not is a separate matter? I see.

> Frankly, all the current smartphones are a copy of iPhone and what Steve pushed.

Can't understand you. Can you take out Steve Jobs' dead balls from your mouth please? Thank you.

Oh I see - it was not about patents at all. I see. You are just on your knees (a very comfortable position for a fanboi though).

And to the serial downmodding assholes, here is another comment to downmod - please continue.

Well, I know, and I am not against the idea of money as incentive. But that, in no way, can justify immoral, unethical, psychopathic behavior of corporations in name of profit, and it can never be used to defend anything.

I have seen this "but they are answerable only to their stockholders" (i.e. capitalism) argument here on slashdot more than enough to make my blood boil.

Profit can never be allowed at the expense of person or society or humanity.

> unrelated threads

This post is related to patents. GP I replied to mentioned patents. So yes, my comment has to be surely and utterly "unrelated".

Anyway, so now that you have called me a hater means I can call you Apple's bitch, right? (See? It works both ways.)

Patent stupidity - it has worked for Apple. Why should Pfizer not do the same?

Oh I see. They did not have Steve Jobs and his RDF to work it's magic on /. crowd.

Hey, they are just taking care of their stockholders Nothing wrong with it, right?

Capitalism, it just works, bitches.

>> You really think Murdoch babysits any of these people?

No, but do you think it's unlikely that get-the-story-no-matter-what directives came from the top? Also, it was not just one case, they were doing this for long, and doing it systematically, and doing it with no regards to moral, ethical or legal aspects. I am not sure all this went on without it being the culture from top to bottom.

To give slashdot some credit, I do see few words in between, such as "high-end", "performance" and "faster".

Why are you so anti-american and anti-capitalism?

That's how everthing was, before apple and apple fanbois started throwing shit at others. Case in point - the ridiculous legal war we are discussing here.

Holy shit! Mark, is that you?????!!!11