“ Thirty years from now when you ’re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee , and he asks you , ‘ What did you do in the great Patent Wars of 2011 ? ’ You wo n’t have to say , ‘ Well , I shovel [ expletive ] in Louisiana . ’ ” – George S. Patton
There ’s been a peck of hubbub about patents this year . They ’re like this year’sCabbage Patch KidsorTamogotchiortactical thermonuclear weapon . You ’d good be on the patent of invention - confine side or woe betide unto you . Loser .
lamentably for Google , its mommy was n’t willing to line up at 6:00 a.m. in front of the toy - R - Us . Or theSoviet Academy of Sciencesat the close of the Cold War , as the case may be .
That ’s not a euphemism , by the way .
Anyway , he does n’t want to be verbalise out of both sides of his floppy - drive sass about this . When the chronicle of this capital battle is written , he wants people to know where he stand up . Well , sir , what shall it be ? Shall it be for liberty or for the tyranny of a unkept letters patent system?!Don’t await for the translation , serve ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ !
( The Macalope buys trite consumption of famous quotations by the bushel down at Earl ’s Trite Uses of Famous Quotations Shack off I-75 in Sarasota . )
Well , really , you’re able to be against Lodsys and for Apple . But it does n’t really matter . The Macalope ’s position on this is about the same as that ofWatts Martin , who nicely sums up some of the dispute and conclude thusly :
… I ’m not trusted I ’m on Apple ’s “ side , ” both as someone who does n’t like software patents in general and as someone who mostly likes Apple ’s products .
The Macalope does n’t fell like he really has a dog in this Google / Microsoft / Apple fight . He honestly does n’t support hotdog - scrap at all . Or cock fighting . ( Thatisa euphemism , by the way . ) But he does n’t think you have to be rooting for someone to find it funny that one of the teams is complaining about the rules of the fight .
Still , if forced into absolute , he ’d gladly sell the profligacy of the Lodsys cause for the dissolution of Microsoft and Apple ’s claims against Android hardware manufacturer . It ’s not like Apple really require the help of the courts to fight Android — it ’s already taking all the earnings . The Macalope vex more about independent developer getting extorted by estimation squatter than three elephantine companies fighting with each other .
