1. "Facebook approached Voxer about a potential collaboration that led to Voxer sharing its patents and proprietary information with the company"
2. Facebook then said 'naaaaah'
3. Facebook then copied some of the technologies he'd shown them to both Facebook and Instagram
The conclusion most people would draw is that Facebook is a piece of shit.
Does that clarify things? Or would you like to keep suggesting that people here have double standards regarding software patents?
in fact its the exact opposite of an antitrust lawsuit since patents themselves are a 20 year state-sanctioned monopoly
Wait what does this mean? Isn't the whole point of patents that it's supposed to be public? If so, how could you "share" them any more than you already did when publishing the patent?
Because since this is a patent lawsuit the existence of a video technology patent is all that matters
Not the ways facebook did grimy actions
This isnt fundamentally different than other software patent litigation threads, so yes I am suggesting a double standard and am here to confirm it
That's the part people are disagreeing with. The patents are overly broad and the Judge is well-known for siding with patent trolls.
So is Voxer patent trolling here? Does it matter because it is meta? Does their earlier meeting about the voxer app actually factor in to it?