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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by tzs on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:54PM (#2684869)
There were online stores that sold applications before Apple did so. What's wrong with calling them whatever we used to call them, before Apple started calling theirs "App Store"?
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by Symmetry on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:59PM (#2684905)
But "app" has been a genericized term since at the 1980s (See "Killer App"). And I'm not seeing how if "Foozit" is a generic term how you can copyright "Foozit Store" if the term is in fact describing a store which sells Foozits.
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by seats on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @04:35PM (#2685125)
What did we used to call them?
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by lucian1900 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @08:02AM (#2705036)
App stores.
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