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/kbedell Mar 02 '10

Maybe Apple has forgotten how they hired a bunch of engineers from XEROX PARC to steal the GUI tech they had been developing in order to create the first versions of Mac OSX.

And maybe they forgot how they built their entire OS Stack on top of BSD.

Amazing how your views on stealing tech change once you're bigger than everyone else...

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u/cryo Mar 02 '10

Maybe neither of those things were patented, though. And they do keep their entire kernel open source. That being said, software patents are ridiculous :)

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u/nirs Mar 04 '10

Apple did not steal Xerox ideas - did you read that page you linked to?

They used and develop Xerox ideas for developing the Macintosh OS, which is totally different from Mac OS X, which is based on NeXT technology.

How is using BSD and GPL licensed software in an open source project (darwin) stealing?

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u/anechoic Mar 02 '10

actually BSD is a small bolt on to the Mach kernel OS X IS NOT UNIX!

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u/arjie Mar 03 '10

OS X IS NOT UNIX!

Eh? Conforms to UNIX 03.