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[News] [SOT] AT&T Exposes Ugly Face Again, Over iPhone

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] AT&T Exposes Ugly Face Again, Over iPhone
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:46:37 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
IPhone Unlock Delayed After AT&T's 'Friendly Advice'

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| Fear of litigation has led to an indefinite delay in the planned Saturday 
| release of software to unlock Apple Inc.'s iPhone. 
| 
| John McLaughlin, founder of Uniquephones, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 
| said Saturday that he received a phone call about 3 a.m. Saturday local time 
| from a man claiming to be from O'Melveny & Myers LLP, an international law  
| firm, calling on behalf of AT&T. The firm has worked with Apple in the past.  
| 
| The man informed McLaughlin that if he posted the unlock code, he could be 
| sued for copyright infringement and for dissemination of Apple's intellectual 
| property (IP).  
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070825/tc_pcworld/136410


Related:

AT&T admits it censored other bands

,----[ Quote
| It looks like Pearl Jam isn't the only band that has had its politically 
| charged comments bleeped from concerts streamed from AT&T's Blue Room Web 
| site.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| AT&T quickly apologized for the incident and blamed the company that handles 
| the Webcasting for performances on Blue Room. 
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759184-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Customers can sue AT&T, after all

,----[ Quote ]
| A federal court in San Francisco has decided that AT&T's wireless contract 
| is "unconscionable". 
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/court_slames_att_wireless_contract_clause/


iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice

,----[ Quote ]
| The company will be selling licenses to the hack, minimum quantity 500, at a 
| price not yet announced. These hacks are much bigger news for those outside 
| America. Expect to see an industry spring up to meet European (and Asian?) 
| demand for freed iPhones.   
`----

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/24/1858252&from=rss


Apple Bullies Bloggers, Again

,----[ Quote ]
| Apple has a history of using lawyers against bloggers. There was
| the now infamous Think Secret lawsuit, which may have had merit.
| But they also engage in clearly superfluous, bullying tactics as well.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The offending download page is here (the software has now been 
| removed). Blogger Paul O?Brien simply linked to this download
| page and included a screenshot of the user interface and also
| received a cease & desist letter from Apple's lawyers.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/13/apple-bullies-bloggers-again/


How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers

,----[ Quote ]
| Apple is a mega corporation that nearly smashed the reputation of
| two individuals with bogus claims of fraud. It didn't matter
| that they weren't the ones pulling the trigger because they
| were pulling all the strings.
`----

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=451


Gates blackmailed Danish government

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft boss Bill Gates threatened to kill 800 Danish jobs if 
| Denmark opposed the European Computer Implemented Inventions
| Directive, reports today's Danish financial daily Børsen,
| quoted by NoSoftwarePatents.com.
`----

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/02162005a.php


Conflict of interests of political party president in softwarepatents issue
in the EU

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| It now appears that Lehne works as a Brussels lobbying consultant
| for multinational corporations who are the main clients of one of
| the leading lawfirms for patent litigation in Europe, which is
| also itself involved in patent lobbying and closely connected
| to lobbying organisations.
`----

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/38793/index.html


How Microsoft distorted the facts in the Vienna conclusions

,----[ Quote ]
| Lately, many signs exist showing how Microsoft's monopoly power
| extends to government and media. We can add a new example to this
| list: The "Vienna conclusions". It seems, their power even
| extends to distorting findings in official UN documents. The
| story contains all usual elements: Sponsorship, not willing
| to participate in public discussions, a conflict of interest
| of one of the members of the committee, and a Microsoft PR
| worker making a ridiculous statement. After that, of course,
| Microsoft denied most of it and ignored the rest.
`----

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/49522/index.html


Study: open source needs official support; Lobbyist
disagrees with "flawed" conclusions

,----[ Quote ]
| The study, commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate
| General Enterprise and Industry, is but a small part of the larger
| FLOSSPOLS project that aims to keep the EU a leader in global
| development of open source software.
|
| [...]
|
| Now, the ISC is widely regarded as a shill for Microsoft, although
| the member list also includes companies like Intel, Autodesk, and
| RSA Security (now an EMC subsidiary). The 300-strong member list is
| mostly padded with lesser lights such as Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi(
| Turkey), ThreeSixtyDegreez (Pakistan), and Datoprogrammu Apgads
| (Latvia). The institute pushes hard for the right to patent
| software, alongside regular bashings of open source businesses.
`----

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061017-8011.html


Changing the Report, After the Vote

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| That agreement was nearly imperiled last weekend, though. Gerri
| Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public
| Sector division, sent an e-mail message to fellow commissioners
| Friday evening saying that she "vigorously" objected to a paragraph
| in which the panel embraced and encouraged the development of open
| source software and open content projects in higher education. 
`----

http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission

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