[linux-elitists] My brain hurts.

[Don Marti]

It's a broad software patent controlled by a
consortium that includes Microsoft, Apple, and Sony.
Boo!

It restricts companies from doing...creepy adtech!
Yay?

https://www.google.com/patents/US6098065?dq=6,098,065
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-war-goes-nuclear-microsoft-apple-owned-rockstar-sues-google/

I guess now that PJ has retired I'll just have to be
confused about the whole thing.

[Tony Godshall]

It doesn't block companies from doing creepy adtech... it requires
them to pay M/A/S if they do creepy adtech. And M/A/S can do creepy
adtech for free. That's my inference... I may be wrong.

Post by Don Marti
It's a broad software patent controlled by a
consortium that includes Microsoft, Apple, and Sony.
Boo!
It restricts companies from doing...creepy adtech!
Yay?
https://www.google.com/patents/US6098065?dq=6,098,065
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-war-goes-nuclear-microsoft-apple-owned-rockstar-sues-google/
I guess now that PJ has retired I'll just have to be
confused about the whole thing.
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http://zgp.org/~dmarti/ Alameda, California, USA
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