Apple has called a truce with Google and is in talks with Samsung, allegedly for a truce. When both of you have money, and can afford the best of lawyers, the lawyers will keep winning. The complex nature of patents doesn't help. On 21 May 2014 18:34, "Philip Musyoki" <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
@Ndungu,
Apple actually licensed the mouse from Xerox PARC. And their implementation of the device worked. As he described it, Steve wanted a device that could work on a table, glass, and finally, on his lap.
There is nothing wrong with licensing existing technology and making it better. That's the difference between Apple and Samsung.
Microsoft also did licence the original Mosaic code for what was to become Internet Explorer. They wanted to get IE quickly to the market to beat Netscape. And the Mosiac had actually been developed by Marc Andreeseen while at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the university held on to it. So Netscape had to develop a new browser from scratch. Only to watch as Microsoft come late to the game and license their original creation.
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:06 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
@ Eva
If Apple dint want Samsung to copy them, then they should NOT be manufacturing their hardware in Samsung.
By manufacturing in Samsung, they taught one who was crawling how to run.
Wasnt it Steve Jobs who said: "Good artists copy" - when he ripped off the mouse from Xerox ?
Karma right there !
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