Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service

Re:Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service by NelsonMinar on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:48AM (#39726420)

Key part of the article: a patent claim from Skyhook forced Mozilla to alter the service in a way they couldn't keep it working.

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Re:Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service by ikekkdcjkfke on Saturday March 16, 2024 @02:13PM (#39728126)

So skyhook lays claim to an aggregate of wifi and gps, both technologies of which they have no chance developing.. Patents involving other advanced technologies should have much stricter requitements

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Re:Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service by deely3 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @06:09PM (#39729926)

How you differentiate between advanced technologies and not?

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Re:Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service by crankycoder1975 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:56PM (#39740394)

You can't.

Skyhook basically owns triangulation of rf. It's absurd.

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Re:Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service by 0xFF0123 on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:36AM (#39741556)

How does Google get around this? Or do they license?

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