Creative: Trade agency investigating Apple

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Do me a favor please: Don't put words in my mouth. It's nice of you to make up ridiculous arguments and refute them. I'm sure it makes you feel good about yourself. It's a shame that they're irrelevant to anything I've said.

---I mean, it obviously has nothing to do with the merits of the case since this hasn't even gone to trial yet.---

It has everything to do with the merits of the case. Read Creative's patent and judge for yourself.

---You have listed #1: if the company doing the suing is not profitable, the lawsuit is frivolous---

I made no such claim. This is a bald-faced lie. At no point did I declare the lawsuit to be frivolous because of Creative's financial status. I did note that an unprofitable company launching a frivolous lawsuit tells you something about their business strategy, that they've become a litigation firm.

---I'm pretty sure I can guess at #2: if the company doing the suing is Apple, the lawsuit is valid ---

Another bald-faced lie. I've repeatedly slammed Apple for their misplaced (and happily dismissed) lawsuits against bloggers.

---And #3 follows easily: if the company being sued is Apple, the lawsuit is frivolous---

Nope. Eminem was wholly in the right in his recent lawsuit against Apple and accordingly won.

---Is it any more silly than suing someone because they used transparent cases?---

Please. Go back and look at that lawsuit. eMachines' copying was well beyond just using a transparent case. And the courts agreed with Apple.

---I just have to smirk at your immediate defense of a silly Apple suit because you were caught making fun of an identical suit by Creative many years later!---

Smirk away as you display your ignorance. I'll happily sit by and watch you make a fool of yourself. The suits are very different. One defended a very specific design that was directly copied. The Creative one is trying to claim a common practice (which dates back to Apple's Lisa II) as a new and patented idea.

You seem to have a problem thinking like your moniker--you assume everyone to be a zealot and read all of their posts with the mindset of a zealot. Why not live up to your name, and read each post and judge each situation on its own merits, rather than trying to paint everything with one broad brush. I've been critical of Apple fairly regularly around here. I won't buy from iTunes because of Apple's DRM policies. I won't buy a new MacBook because frankly, I'm underwhelmed by them and they're laden with problem after problem. I'm very disturbed by the recent revelations about labor conditions in Apple's manufacturing sites. I hated Apple's lawsuits against bloggers. How many more times do I have to act in a fair and unbiased manor for you to give me any credit? Why does it only catch your eye when I defend Apple? How blinded are you by your own biases?; Posted by: tic swayback Posted on: 06/14/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use