Comments on: I guess I need to be careful about that apple logo https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:25:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: michael i https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12082 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12082 What part of “Apple agrees to stay out of the music business” is it that Steve Jobs cannot understand?

The suit by Apple Corps that led (after years and years in court) to that 1991 agreement Apple Computer is accused of breaking was a real head-scratcher among most computer hobbyists when it was first filed. Back then, the play-music-on-a-computer stuff Apple was pitching was very crude. We couldn’t see what the fuss from Apple Corps was all about. I guess we weren’t as forward-looking as those “suits” we detested so much were, eh?

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12083 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12083 Only if she names her company Apple LTC.

]]> By: Joshua https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12084 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12084 So does this mean that Apple Martin (the daughter of Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow) could get sued if she someday decides to follow in Dad’s footsteps under her real, given name?

]]> By: Mitch https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12085 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12085 Just don’t sing.

]]> By: Fausta https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12086 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12086 at an earlier time in my life, that would have been the fulfillment of a dream
This reminds me of when I was living in PR in the late 1960s.

The older sister of one my friends was in London (as an exchange student) and came back saying that she’d actually heard the Beatles playing on the roof of a building near where she was staying.

Of course, I didn’t believe her.

]]> By: ElMondoHummus https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12087 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12087 Oh, sheesh, I forgot about that Y. Sorry ’bout that. I’ll go take a look.

]]> By: camojack https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12088 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12088 Good day, sunshine.

Let it be…

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12089 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12089 El, just as reminder that I replied to your navy piracy issue on my blog.

]]> By: Epaminondas https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12090 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12090 Use a green pear, magritte won’t object

]]> By: ElMondoHummus https://thenewneo.com/2006/03/29/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about/#comment-12091 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/03/i-guess-i-need-to-be-careful-about.html#comment-12091 And wait a minute! Neo, is your brother filesharing??!! Huh… a P2P’er and a blogger in the same family. Such a bourgeois-tech family you got there. 🙂

::chuckles::

Funny, every one I’ve met or read from that era just seems to have this dream about associating (I won’t go into the steamier fantasies!) with the Beatle’s somehow. I was born just a touch too late to be in that “generation” (1970), so this is sort of idolization of that band is a partial mystery to me.

But just partial. If I think about certain movie stars… va-VOOOOOOM!!!. Some level of understanding comes (“Well, hello Winona! No, I’m not busy tonight…”, “Ashley? You say your sick of that handsome, rich, interesting race car driver husband of yours? Well, hey, I happen to like college basketball…”, “Jessica Alba??” ::drools insensibly, speechless::)

Okay… I guess I do understand, to a degree…

Anyhoo… back on topic (at least the topic of lawsuits, not necessarily this specific case between the Apples):

Research in Motion (the company that made the Blackberry) and NTP just settled a big, potentially ugly patent-infringement suit. eBay is currently fending off some company called MercExchange right now. In both cases, the plaintiffs could’ve gone after others; in NTP’s case, there’s a whole slew of folks to have chased, such as Goode Technology but NTP definitely went after the big boy on the block. I can’t comment on the eBay case because I don’t know too much about it, but are they the only users of the technology in question? I’m not sure, but I’d bet they’re the biggest.

Your statement, Neo, about Apple Comp’s “pockets (being) just a mite deeper than yours” pretty much sums up corporate lawsuits today: Go after the biggest ones around. It just seems to me today to be yet another method of profit generation for some of these companies.

Eh… that’s our world. We just live it in…

So, when you cuttin’ a record for those rappers? You also plan to sell them through this blog??

😉

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