Paul's blog

Apple are idiots. They are just a Microsoft wannabe, but in tighter pants. I've never forgiven them for making Emagic Apple only. What if Microsoft did that with Word, erm? It did do me a favour now, Nuendo, yeah!!

Hrm... Well they are a few years late to the smartphone race. Perhaps it took that long to recover from the Newton losses? Then again, that was a pretty cool device.

Apple and lawsuits
To me and to many others the ccompany apple stands as another word for assholes. Arrogant ones too. I used to buy and use their products, but as things have developed my frinds and me has ceased to do so. We dont want to see them receive a single dime to further build up their arrogance.

Our attitude against against Apple has come to be: Mimic or copy everything you can with the sole purpose to see less profit for Apple.

I hope that company ceases to exist and Steve Jobs walking outside searching trashcans for food.

They are as RIAA and others making themselves hated. The reward for it will come in time.

Of course, it all comes off rather heavy handed but Apple is not two guys in a garage anymore. They are one of the corporate monsters and this is a corporate requirement.

Companies are forced to defend their trademarks and patents. It is simply the corporate knee jerk reaction. If they don't defend them then this means they have abandoned them and others will have the right to use them.

This is why Xerox takes out ads in writers' magazines reminding them to not use Xerox as a verb for copying something.

Klenex did not defend their name and now many people use that word as "tissue".

I can see why they might be able to "demand" that you remove a screenshot if you were hosting the image on your Modaco domain, but if the image and all files were hosted on the XDA-Developers site, you should have told the complaintants to EAD !.

You might also give O’Melveny & Myers LLP a tip that their employer is Apple Inc., not Apple Computer Inc as of the day iPhone was launched. :)

Demand? Sure, they can demand. But you don't have to do anything to be in compliance with the law. (And you surely already knew that.)

One of my hosting customers posted a link to a multimedia file on AOL's servers, and a lawyer from Arent Fox phoned me, telling me that he wanted their copyrighted material off my server. I tried to explain to him that the copyrighted matter was on AOL's server, not mine, but he seemed to have the cognitive powers of an overripe avocado. Finally, I just told him that within an hour, there wouldn't be any of AOL's copyrighted matter on my server. Since it wasn't there in the first place, that was the simplest solution.

On the other hand, an uncle of mine was a lawyer. He told the story of a client who called for legal advice on the weekend. He listened to the story, and said, "We can talk about it on Monday. In the meanwhile, don't worry too much about it; they can't put you in jail for that." The client replied, "But you don't understand. I'm calling from the jail...."

Your worst humiliation

is only someone else's momentary entertainment