There is a significant difference between using defensive patent pool
(OIN, WebM one and etc.), and using patents in offensive in abusive
fashion (what Apple and Microsoft are notorious for). I.e. even if Swipe
UI is patented, but Nokia doesn't object it to be reimplemented by the
community as FOSS that's one situation (think of closed Google's
map-reduce and open Apache's Hadoop). But if Nokia will go after those
who reimplemented it - that's completely different. So far I didn't see
any indication of Nokia's position on this matter.
Regards,
Hillel.
On 10/02/2011 01:24 PM, kate.alh...@nokia.com wrote:
I think ( that's are my personal opinions, not my employers ) swipe is very
easy to implement but it is so great invention
that Nokia wan't to give it to competing handset manufacturers. I guess that
Nokia will have patent for it and releasing
code as FOSS even if code is just very small piece of code would implicitly
mean that Nokia give up patent.
I think that everyone has already noticed that it is about impossible be
significant handset manufacturer without a lot of
patents because there is paten war ongoing and you need own ones to defend.
Kate
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