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Apple's patent exclusion could roil Web standards
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| On March 5 Apple dropped a small bombshell on the World Wide Web Consortium
| (W3C) standards body, excluding one of its patents from the W3C Royalty-Free
| License commitment of the W3C Patent Policy for Widgets 1.0. The patent in
| question covers automatic updates to a client computer in a networked
| operating environment.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10191484-16.html
Apple also fought against Ogg. The fiends.
Recent:
Ask Apple to Support Ogg on iPod/iTunes
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| Please ask Apple to support Ogg on their iPods, iPhones, and iTunes! It
| wouldn't hurt to also sign this petition (and maybe this one), though I don't
| know how strongly they'd influence Apple. Here's why, as good news and bad
| news.
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http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2009/01/10/#ask-apple-support-ogg-ipod
Apple copies Microsoft tactics in Itunes row
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| Sam Odio, operator of bluwiki, did what Jobs' Mob demanded only because he
| said he lacked the money to take on the fruit-themed toymaker.
|
| He told AP that, when a lawyer calls you up and implicitly threatens
| litigation that would bankrupt your little project, you obviously have no
| choice but to comply.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/apple-copies-microsoft-itunes
35 Days Against DRM — Anti-DRM actions
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| We'd like to get a physical presence on your local main street and outside
| major DRM retailers -- activists from all over the world, coming together to
| inform citizens of the dangers of DRM. We will have leaflets and signs that
| you can print, use and distribute. Encourage your local free software user
| group, chapter of Students for Free Culture and other anti-DRM activists to
| join you. We will post your event on DefectiveByDesign and others can sign-up
| to join you.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/days-protest
Related:
Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web
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| But remember, that's not what Nokia is objecting to: they are arguing that
| Ogg is proprietary (it isn't) and that DRM should be part of a Web standard
| (it shouldn't).
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
Microsoft urges Nokia to offer Windows Mobile devices
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| While Nokia phones don’t yet have a Windows OS, they do use a range of other
| Microsoft software. This includes ActiveSynch for connecting to Exchange
| Servers and the PlayReady DRM technology used to protect purchased music and
| video content.
|
| Starkweather said the existing relationship between the two companies was
| strong and he was enthusiastic about it developing further in the future.
|
| “We work closely with Nokia and we would love to have them go all the way,”
| he said. “It’s something we talk about all the time.”
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16510/1055/
Nokia dismisses Google open source Android platform
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| Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo dismissed Android saying his company had
| already ventured down that path. "Conceptually, we [Nokia] could have made
| that announcement a long time ago."
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http://axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/13352
Is Nokia Looking for Revenue in the Wrong Places?
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| He proposed that iPod and iTunes was an exception, and would be eclipsed by a
| Nokia/Microsoft (MSFT) partnership in short order.
|
| [...]
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| That conversation echoes the one that nearly every music player manufacturer
| on the planet has had to date. And Microsoft's DRM and poor business
| decisions has managed to undermine the business of every single one of them,
| especially now that Microsoft's Zune competes with them and yet isn't
| compatible with Microsoft's own PlaysForSure music software.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/56822-is-nokia-looking-for-revenue-in-the-wrong-places?source=yahoo
Nokia to put Microsoft PlayReady onto S60 & S40 cellphone platforms
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| Nokia is to support Microsoft's PlayReady content access technology into the
| Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms, starting in 2008.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13884&Itemid=1055
Microsoft: We Like DRM
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
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