“This is my fourth blog post today on a FRAND statement by a major tech company,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.
“In the first one, I published an Apple letter (dated November 11, 2011, but discovered only yesterday) to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), proposing a framework that would give meaning to FRAND,” Mueller reports. “Microsoft issued a statement today that also advocates a set of helpful FRAND rules (four items in that case). Google, quite unfortunately, proposes a definition of FRAND that makes mockery of the term.’
Mueller reports, “But for the final post today, I have good news: Cisco Systems wrote a letter to ETSI last week that is a wholesale endorsement of Apple’s proposals. I obtained this letter only today…”
Read more in the full article here.
Google’s Don’t be evil is a bulshit disguise and as blatant a misleading lie of intentions just like the paragraph :
“On injunctions, the letter basically says that the only way to avoid them is to accept those out-of-line royalty demands that no responsible company in the industry will be able to accept. I can’t imagine that any major player ever acceded to that demand.
There’s a reference to pending litigations, but those won’t be withdrawn because one of the countless loopholes in Google’s “commitments” is that it reserves the right to pursue injunctions against those who didn’t take a license on such terms in the past.”
Self serving showing intent of more future evil thievery:
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-letter-to-standards-bodies.html
“On injunctions, the letter basically says that the only way to avoid them is to accept those out-of-line royalty demands that no responsible company in the industry will be able to accept. I can’t imagine that any major player ever acceded to that demand.”
Does anyone know what this means? Isn’t it a contradiction?
Google tells European Commission on ‘open standards’: do as I say, not as I do
Evil, conniving, backstabbing hypocrites.
Just think if Apple owned Cisco.
Google = ὕϐρις
+ injury
Googe = Techscum
Boycott all of Googe before they own you and the Internet.
Apple started the patent war on Android and the Steve Jobs quotes are quite public. If Apple expect to close down Android using patents then they surely must have expected some sort of response. Only a position of mutual destruction will stop this stupid patent war and let Apple and Google get back to making great platforms for consumers.