Comments on: $5m Google fine over Linux patent suit as clouds gather around Android momentum http://www.slashgear.com/5m-google-fine-over-linux-patent-suit-as-clouds-gather-around-android-momentum-22147897/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Md Painter http://www.slashgear.com/5m-google-fine-over-linux-patent-suit-as-clouds-gather-around-android-momentum-22147897/#comment-107151 Md Painter Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:29:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=147897#comment-107151 Google should look into the Pick operating system for both ideas and prior art. “storage and retrieval using a hashing technique with external chaining” sounds very Pick like.

Had AT&T owned Pick, there would be no Unix. (Probably not true but Unix would have stayed where it belongs, running phone systems.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/5m-google-fine-over-linux-patent-suit-as-clouds-gather-around-android-momentum-22147897/#comment-106490 Anonymous Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:06:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=147897#comment-106490 FFS! An LRU cache is patented!?!?!?! Because that patent sure covers an LRU cache…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/5m-google-fine-over-linux-patent-suit-as-clouds-gather-around-android-momentum-22147897/#comment-106488 Anonymous Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=147897#comment-106488 Shouldn’t it be easier to just throw $1bn at the “officially corrupt” politicians to cancel out the software patents altogether?

]]> By: Magnesus http://www.slashgear.com/5m-google-fine-over-linux-patent-suit-as-clouds-gather-around-android-momentum-22147897/#comment-106486 Magnesus Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=147897#comment-106486 Wouldn’t it be easier for Google to just buy the entity that sued them?

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