Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

10 March 2010, 00:32

In response to Apple's lawsuit against HTC, Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has written a very intriguing blog post providing an insight into how major companies like Apple and Microsoft treat patents. He recounts two occasions on which Apple and Microsoft threatened to sue Sun - and how Sun retorted.

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/

I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphica…

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