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by bsullivan01 4626 days ago
It's like a billionaire punching a street bum in the face, and then whining when the bum fights back ungentlemanly.

Very touching, minus the fact that APPL was once almost bankrupt too and that the iPhone, that everyone started copying, really made them that $150 Billion. Care to tell us what Android looked before the iPhone? Oh, it looked like the market leader of that time, Blackberry. http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wi...

I find it absurd that FRAND patents are practically valueless

No one forced them to make them FRAND patents. At least they get a cent here or there from every phone on earth.

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They made good business decisions to make that money. That does not give them the right to become ass holes and claim everything they did was original and exclusive to them.

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. Some better than others, some different, some identical. It is insane that this shit needs to be patented.

You know, I can't even tell who you're talking about there, Motorola's FRAND patents or Apple?