Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
The patent battle between Apple and Creative that I blogged about back in June has been settled. Apple agreed to pay Creative protection money to make them go away.
The dispute was doubtless good for the patent bar, but it’s hard to see how anyone else benefitted.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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