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Apple hit with a $5.7 billion verdict for alleged patent infringement
www.engadget.com/2269826/apple-hit-with-a-57-billion-verdict-for-alleged-patent-infringement/
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
Patenting the idea of a vibrator is so fucking stupid. I hate this country.
Replying to @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
I’m not sure rounded corners or a certain kind of icons are much better.
Replying to @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
Yeah, America should be more permissive towards megacorporations!
Replying to @chewypoops@lemmy.world
The current patent system greatly benefits the mega corporations. A small company could never make a phone because of the insane patent minefield owned by the mega corps.
Replying to @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
Yeah they basically set up a mutually assured destruction patent stalemate with the existing big players. Any new entrant gets blown to high hell.
It looks to me like they’re lobbying to do the same with “AI” right now. They want to set up some stupid protectionist racket where it’ll be as impossible to use a cheap chatbot as it is to buy a cheap EV in the states.
Replying to @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
Previous steam controller died cuz of a patent troll