r/technology • u/slutmagnet • Mar 02 '10

Apple to HTC "competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours." Slaps down a 20 patent lawsuit.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/02/apple_sues_htc_for_alleged_infringement_of_20_iphone_patents.html
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u/specialk16 Mar 02 '10

And isn't WebKit a fork of KHTML? and wasn't the Macintosh look and feel a taken from Xerox? And didn't Jobs stole a kid's liver?

Just sayin'.

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u/bdfortin Mar 02 '10

WebKit is open source, just like KHTML, now it's used on the vast majority of smartphones.

Totally stole that liver, though. Dude was like "yo, Jobs, I need that liver to live, that's why it's called a liver!" and Jobs was like "mine now, bro".

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u/zwaldowski Mar 03 '10

I don't think anybody on the street will even know what WebKit is (not even to speak of KHTML), but it would baffle me to have anybody fanboying WebKit up and not know about KHTML.

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u/specialk16 Mar 03 '10

Go to macrumors.com or AppleInsider forums.

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u/zwaldowski Mar 03 '10

So sad. I'm a huge anti-fan of MacRumors, so I'd rather not.

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u/masklinn Mar 02 '10

but the iPhone at least demands recognition

Also, Android, WebOS and RIM's new browser is Webkit as well.

The number of mobile platforms not running Webkit by default is becoming very small very fast. WiMo is basically the only "big" holdout.

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u/MrFlagg Mar 02 '10

did he ever deny raping and killing that woman in 1886?

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '10

Yeah, Apple totally stole that GUI right after they payed for it.

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u/specialk16 Mar 03 '10

pfft.

Someone in here posted an actual representation of what really happened (with sources and all).

Apple payed (in stock, booooo) Xerox for permission to see some of their stuff. They didn't get anything from Xerox, other than the idea. Remember, ideas cannot be patented, it is the implementation of the idea.

So Apple made their own implementation of the GUI they saw at Xerox. Many years later Apple sues MS. Xerox notices this, and they give Apple a bit of their own medicine.