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One of two things will happen here...
By AbsShek on 3/15/2010 10:03:42 AM , Rating: 2
One of two things can happen after this:

1) Apple wins - The tech world will be held back by all the patenting and suing. - Dark ages

2) Google wins - The tech world will be engulfed in a lot of open source code being duplicated, leaving the consumers confused as to which software to use. - Information overload

Or, if we're lucky, the patenting system is given an overhaul, and the conditions for technology patents are made more stringent.

RE: One of two things will happen here...
By TheEinstein on 3/15/2010 10:24:31 AM , Rating: 5
1) Apple Wins, our tyrant hides all info, controls all production

2) Google Wins, Our Tyrant shows openess on the public side, but in the depths they control and manipulate us via 1984 brainwashing methods, using the information they garner off our searches.

3) Microsoft Wins, Our Tyrant seeks money from us, but generally if they get the money they stay hands off from us...

4) AOL returns from the dead, and Wins, Our Tyrant makes it so no other software than their own can run, and only on Saturdays, and with annoying catchy noises and phrases everywhere, humanity is reduced to a psychologically ill crowd bent on removing the voices from our heads...







By seamonkey79 on 3/15/2010 11:59:13 PM , Rating: 2
I like Microsoft's win...

and I've got an Android phone :-)

By omnicronx on 3/15/2010 12:34:08 PM , Rating: 2
3) Apples patents are proven to be overly broad, covered by prior art or just plain invalid.

both systems continue to co-exists which gives consumers choice.. I don't want either side to 'Win', Apple has definitely driven the mobile market the last few years, but if they are not challenged, what will keep them innovating? We will be in the same position as we were before the iPhone if Apple wins this case.

Also, open source code being duplicated? The reason I enjoy using Java is because I rarely have to duplicate existing functionality, someone else has most likely already done what I am looking for.. i.e I always look first to see if it has been done before I attempt it myself.

Now on the otherhand you could have 100 apps on the iPhone store that all need to do the same thing internally, but all do it a different way as resources are rarely shared. (there are some sites and places, but they are few and far between compared to the open source community.)

