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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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