A friend sent me a link about the new monopoly/patents bastards: Apple Inc.
Apple was never worried about open standards, never tried to hide their intentions to block the Mac market by building a closed architecture-operating system-applications scheme. In that sense, Microsoft is almost open source. They were the first supporters, together with IBM, of the open architecture, the PC. In the past, it was quite easy to develop programs for DOS (using the magnificent Borland’s Turbo C++) etc, it was, in a sense, an open world.
I may say, in fact, that Microsoft tried to become the new Apple and failed miserably, to our own sake, because Apple never had much advantage in the market, only to those few posh non-hackers or weird designers. Today, Microsoft is being forced to open it’s servers’ protocols, more and more third-party compilers and IDEs (good free ones) are being added to the list, etc. It’s not a closed world in the strict sense, at least not as closed as the Mac world is.
But Google, always defender of freedom, openness, transparency (?) and good craftsmanship, fighting hard to end with the awkward and stupid patent system in US here and there ended up filling their own patent.
What happened? Not enough resources? Or are you playing on their (MS/Apple) own terms? Apple think the latter is more probable, so do I… They are now in direct competition with Microsoft, desktop search, Google Docs (with presentation) and they must fight in a field where MS and Apple dictate the rules and the rules are monopoly and patents, unfortunately…
Well, lets hope that the part of Google that wants to break with patents win before the other part (that are filling patents) get more damage to freedom…
Fingers crossed!
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