iPhone專(zhuān)利流氓攻擊Twitteriffic
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????目前,，大約有40000名開(kāi)發(fā)者以在蘋(píng)果（Apple）應(yīng)用程序商店（App Store）出售應(yīng)用為生,。上周五,，一家名為L(zhǎng)odsys的美國(guó)得克薩斯小公司向其中部分開(kāi)發(fā)者發(fā)出專(zhuān)利侵權(quán)信函。Lodsys公司的關(guān)鍵資產(chǎn)似乎是4項(xiàng)包括應(yīng)用程序內(nèi)部購(gòu)買(mǎi)（in-app purchases）等在內(nèi)的專(zhuān)利,，這些專(zhuān)利被許可使用甚廣,。 ????盡管蘋(píng)果已經(jīng)購(gòu)買(mǎi)了相關(guān)技術(shù)的專(zhuān)利許可，但Lodsys首席執(zhí)行官馬克?斯莫爾聲稱(chēng),，所有使用應(yīng)用程序內(nèi)部購(gòu)買(mǎi)的開(kāi)發(fā)者也都應(yīng)該向Lodsys付費(fèi),。 ????此前，Lodsys威脅將起訴的公司相對(duì)都規(guī)模較小,、知名度較低,。不過(guò)本周二，Twitterific的共同創(chuàng)始人塔洛斯?崔在Twitter上發(fā)布了一條僅有4個(gè)字的消息：“Lodsys盯上Twitterific,?！盩witterific是最流行的Twitter客戶端之一，在蘋(píng)果應(yīng)用商店上被大肆推廣,。 ????此事可能會(huì)破環(huán)應(yīng)用程序商店賴(lài)以存在的商業(yè)模式的關(guān)鍵部分,，不過(guò)蘋(píng)果目前尚未對(duì)此事發(fā)表評(píng)論。但一條在本周二上午被瘋狂轉(zhuǎn)載的Twitter消息恰如其分的反映了開(kāi)發(fā)者社區(qū)的情緒,。這條消息是一位荷蘭開(kāi)發(fā)者發(fā)布的,，具體如下： ????“這個(gè)專(zhuān)利體系完全不能保護(hù)iPhone免遭瘋狂拷貝，而現(xiàn)在這個(gè)體系被用來(lái)敲詐其開(kāi)發(fā)者,?！?/p> ????關(guān)于此次專(zhuān)利糾紛的背景，請(qǐng)參閱弗洛里安?穆勒于周二在FOSS Patent網(wǎng)站上發(fā)表的問(wèn)答文章,。如想更進(jìn)一步了解馬克?斯莫爾,，請(qǐng)參閱帕特里克?羅格在相關(guān)網(wǎng)站上發(fā)表的文章。 ????譯者：項(xiàng)航 |
????On Friday, a small Texas company called Lodsys whose key asset seems to be four heavily licensed patents covering, among other things, in-app purchases, began sending patent-infringement letters to a handful of the 40,000 developers trying to make a living selling applications in Apple's (AAPL) crowded App Store. ????Even though Apple has licensed the technologies at issue, Lodsys CEO Mark Small is claiming that every developer that uses them also owes Lodsys a cut. ????So far, the companies threatened with legal action have been relatively small and unknown. But on Tuesday, Talos Tsui, the co-founder of one of the most popular Twitter clients -- one heavily promoted on Apple's own storefront -- announced in a four-word tweet: Twitterific just got Lodsysed. ????Apple has yet to comment on the situation, which threatens to undermine a key aspect of the business model on which the App Store was constructed, but the mood of the developer community was captured by a Dutch developer's quote that was being heavily re-tweeted Tuesday morning: ????"The same patent system that has completely failed to protect the iPhone from being copied wholesale is being used to extort its developers." ????For background on the legal situation, see the Q&A posted Tuesday by FOSS Patent's Florian Mueller. For more on Mark Small, see what Patrick Igoe has dredged up. |
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