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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by bitcartel on Thursday November 01, 2012 @12:50PM (#4728442)
You're right. Mr Cook has good reason to P45 (British pink slip) the UK legal team for their poor advice, but a fish rots from the head.
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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by Groxx on Thursday November 01, 2012 @04:24PM (#4729520)
But gangrene frequently afflicts extremities. And fish heads are not often replaceable.

Metaphors often (generally?) make poor arguments for why X does Y.

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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by JabavuAdams on Thursday November 01, 2012 @04:43PM (#4729597)
More generally, aphorisms and allegory are specifically created to prove a point. They can never constitute evidence, only persuasion.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese, and all that.

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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by jlgreco on Thursday November 01, 2012 @06:51PM (#4730188)
Perhaps a good expression is "A few bad Apple employees^W^Wapples spoil the barrel".

In other words, the decay started by a few will quickly rot an entire batch, if the good and the bad are kept together too long.

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