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Re:Apple loses German patent court case by deelowe on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:31PM (#4565473)
Ok? What's this have to do with android? An anecdote is just that. We can't compare past Apple behavior to that of Google. They are very different companies in many ways.
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Re:Apple loses German patent court case by flatline3 on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:38PM (#4565518)
It means that:

A) closed development breaks the OSS community model -- that's not anecdote, just fact.

B) We have a past example of the slippery slope of closed development.

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