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I agree with Alex, companies with patents should be forced to use them or lose them. Sitting on them to sue other people shouldn’t be a valid business model.
Regarding snapshot.apple.com, I sat through a minute or so and it shows how different it is living in Europe, I only recognized about half a dozen people, like Kate Blanchett, Brad Pitt and Jennifer. But most of the others I didn’t know, a few I’d heard names, like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé, but I couldn’t pick them out of a line-up.
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Alex seems mistaken about the contempt charge. It wasn’t levied because of non-compliance. It was levied because VP of Finance Alex Roman lied under oath, and Epic had the receipts (which Apple stalled and stalled on providing) to prove it; and because of misuse of attorney-client privilege in attempting to without said receipts.
If you look up her history, Judge Gonzales Rogers has generally upheld Apple’s position in the various cases she’s had. In the Epic case, she even said that Epic’s situation was largely one of its own making. It was in this one single area that she found Epic had a point.
As a side note: I found it particularly reprehensible that Alex’s issue with this is that Apple wrote things down. Not that they violated the order. Not that they were anti-competitive. His problem, essentially, is that they got caught. This goes beyond his claimed-cynicism and into tolerance and acceptable of unethical behavior.
Alex’s assertion that Apple did nothing wrong because it followed the “letter” of the law doesn’t hold water with me. This is akin to the US government being told verbally to halt deportations, and then not doing it because it wasn’t written. It’s complete and utter BS. Judges don’t like it when you play cute with their orders and injunctions.
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I was actually surprised how short that segment was.
If you want Jason’s take, he and Mike spent quite a while discussing the ruling.
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I completely second this. The discussion of this topic on Upgrade 562 is absolutely excellent.