Apple at the top of the list

Forget politics, forget economics, forget global warming.

This is the post that will make me widely hated.

Apple has reached the top of my “Hated Technology Companies” list. They’re ahead of Microsoft, ahead of Google, ahead of Oracle.

Why? Because they are abusing the patent system in worse ways than the others. Microsoft, in fact, is making an attempt, if half-hearted and disorganized, to come to terms with the open-source communities. Apple, on the other hand, has managed to get an injunction against Samsung based on drawings that look like a tablet. The problem is that the drawings were made 10 years after Microsoft demonstrated a working tablet.

So Apple wins the Egregious Use of Patents Award, and their place on the freedom wall of dishonor.

I suppose that, to be fair, the courts, lawyers, and legislators ought to join them, but they’ve got their own lists.

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