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To: driftdiver; antiRepublicrat; Star Traveler
Facts? From you? ha perhaps you should read my comments instead of think of new ways Apple is perfect.

I am not a liar. Stop the insulting ad hominem insinuations that I am.

Yes, FACTS. Every one of those statements I posted is true. If you weren't suffering from such a severe case of Apple derangement syndrome, you might have read them.

They've been posted in numerous articles both in tech journals and even mainstream news media during the past couple of months while this dispute has been building. Much of what I posted are stipulated as facts by both Apple and Nokia. Nokia is attempting to twist those facts into something that is an infringement... it is not. Nokia attempted to use its ownership of certain publicly available patents in an internationally accepted standard that has been agreed to be available to all who wish to participate in the standard in F/RAND terms in a discriminatory way to gain access to Apple's proprietary iPhone patents. First by demanding Apple grant them licenses to the iPhone patents in exchange for Nokia's agreement to even allow the regular rate terms... and then later punitively at discriminatory 2.5 to 3 times greater than market rates for the licenses when Apple refused to agree to the original terms.

60 posted on 01/05/2010 6:01:52 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker; antiRepublicrat; Star Traveler

Apple derangement syndrome? No actually I find apple products to be useful and good even if they are over priced. I find the extreme leftist tilt of the company to be distasteful.

I also find the holier than thou attitude of Mac proponents on FR to be obnoxious and quite offensive in many cases. For example Star Travelers statement that all windows developers are unethical on another thread about a month ago.

BTW, have you seen the latest security patches released by apple?


63 posted on 01/05/2010 6:20:21 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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