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Well said. I don't see that Apple has any choice but to side with the developers. As I understand it to develop on iOS you need to use Apples SDK. The developer has no way of knowing if any of the API's that are part of the SDK are based on technology licenced from someone else. I can't see how Apple can maintain a relationship with developers if their not willing to stand behind their SDK. Who knows what other features of iOS may be tied to patents that Apple does not own and for which the devs could be held liable.
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Doing so would violate the terms of the SDK. The dev could pay off the patent trolls and then find they now have a legal issue with Apple.
Edit: This was in response to someone who posted that the devs should just pay. I guess I forgot to hit the quote button.
I hear Lodsys is contemplating suing Sesame Street for violating the patentthey hold on the letter "Q".
mrfoof82 said:The main reason Apple is standing up is because if a developer settles with Lodsys and pays the royalties, they're actually violating their developer agreement with Apple (yes, it's true!). As a developer, you currently can't win.
Developers are legally between a rock (Lodsys) and a hard place (Apple), even though the infringing IP is provided by Apple, not by developers (developers use Apple's API to infringe the patent). I'm sure if some developers settled, Apple would give a bye, but right now this is an ugly situation that is creating a decent amount of fear between iOS developers.
As an iOS developer, it's good to see Apple letting everyone know they're looking out for their developer community.
Well said. I don't see that Apple has any choice but to side with the developers. As I understand it to develop on iOS you need to use Apples SDK. The developer has no way of knowing if any of the API's that are part of the SDK are based on technology licenced from someone else. I can't see how Apple can maintain a relationship with developers if their not willing to stand behind their SDK. Who knows what other features of iOS may be tied to patents that Apple does not own and for which the devs could be held liable.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
Doing so would violate the terms of the SDK. The dev could pay off the patent trolls and then find they now have a legal issue with Apple.
Edit: This was in response to someone who posted that the devs should just pay. I guess I forgot to hit the quote button.
I hear Lodsys is contemplating suing Sesame Street for violating the patentthey hold on the letter "Q".
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