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Posted in Microsoft vs Google patent ding dong gets stuck on repeat

Posted Friday 5th August 2011 14:54 GMT

zelrik

@DZ-Jay

No it's more like:

MS: "Hey we have 20k patents, wanna join us to bid on more patent? So that we get more patents and you effectively get NONE AHAH, you won't be able to defend against us :D"

G: "Huh? Bad Deal.."

Oracle: " Here Google, this is how to do it, you buy a company like Sun and you use their patents to sue somebody (in that case, that would be you :D) so that you get your money back from your purchase O_O. Free companies are free :p. Thanks to patents"

G: " Oh shit, we need more patents to defend ourselves"

MS: "No you don't. Just bid with us. We'll sue you anyway. Everybody will sue you, just because we can and you can't fight back. Ahahahah"

Apple: "Yeah, that s right, just sue the fuck out of Google :D. We have 20+ k patents too. Just sue the fuck out of Google instead of making better products, that's money put to good use."

G: " We need more patents do defend ourselves..."

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Posted in Desktop Linux: the final frontier

Posted Tuesday 24th May 2011 13:06 GMT

zelrik

Work

I can't work on windows. Have a good day.

Posted in Google: 'We did not follow Apple into phone market'

Posted Saturday 10th July 2010 12:57 GMT

zelrik

so what?

What you just said is not in contradiction with what I said. Learn how to read.

Posted in Google: 'We did not follow Apple into phone market'

Posted Saturday 10th July 2010 01:29 GMT

zelrik

I'd side with Google on that one

Apple has an history of releasing products before others with less features and then blame the competition for copying them. They did that with the iphone (Google bought the startup working on android in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google , the iphone was released in 2007), and they will do it with the ipad (android tablets were announced way before the ipad was even rumored).

Another way to look at it: Google's real aim is Microsoft, Apple is just getting 'friendly fire'.

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Posted in Open-source handset sales to soar

Posted Monday 6th July 2009 23:56 GMT

zelrik

SI system

@vincent himpe, in the SI system, m by itself means meter I should say, mm is milli-meter mA is milli-Ampere etc. Also 105mPhone should be 0.105 phones and not 0.15 phones. You wanted to be accurate, at least try to get it right next time. And no, Android sales are not on the 'milli' scale, they are more on the 'million' scale, especially now that there are more offers available.

As for opensource OS's 60% seems a bit high, even for phones. Still, a lot of them are Linux based but that doesnt mean they are open source.

Posted in Linux to spend eternity in shadow of 'little blue E'

Posted Monday 26th January 2009 15:09 GMT

zelrik

So...

I stopped using windows XP one year ago to use ubuntu only instead. I started ubuntu 2 years ago as a dual boot. At that time ubuntu was not as good as it is now so I struggled a bit. But now I can tell that ubuntu is heading in the right direction, most things got their own GUI. I am still using the command line because I am a bit of a geek, but I dont feel it's so much needed anymore.

By the way, I have been using windows for 10 years before that, I also tried Linux 10 years ago which made me puke at that time.

As for the little E, Firefox has a lot of market penetration (>20% now).

For the little X and W, OpenOffice has also descent share also (~15%).

So dont assume people dont use alternatives when they actually do.

Posted in Linux: this year's silver lining?

Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 15:59 GMT

zelrik