{"id":547,"date":"2006-03-03T23:24:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=547"},"modified":"2006-03-03T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T04:24:53","slug":"blackberry-is-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry is GO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/03\/03\/technology\/rimm_ntp\/index.htm?cnn=yes\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"settlement\" alt=\"settlement\" src=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/03\/03\/technology\/rimm_ntp\/blackberry_settlement.03.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/03\/03\/technology\/rimm_ntp\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">Litigation OVER!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8211; BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said Friday it agreed to pay $612.5 million to patent holding company NTP to settle a long-running dispute that had threatened to shut down the popular wireless e-mail service for its 3 million users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, that ends that.  And as a Blackberry user, I&#8217;m certainly relieved.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time though, I am annoyed at the situation.  First, let&#8217;s face it, NTP got away with stealing $612 million on an overbroad patent, which it never made its own products from.  And the patents have been largely ruled invalid.  Yet, thanks to our broken patent and court systems, the invlidation of those patents didn&#8217;t mean a thing in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this signals to me that RIM&#8217;s &#8220;workaround&#8221; wasn&#8217;t all it was cracked up to be.  For the longest time we were fed a line that RIM had a workaround and that effectively, they didn&#8217;t <em>need<\/em> to settle.  And when experts kept asking the same question we all were &#8211; why not just turn the workaround on now and end the case? &#8211; there was no answer from RIM.  In effect, it feels a lot like Blackberry users were lied to, to give us a false sense of complacency and to prevent more people from researching alternatives.  That doesn&#8217;t sit well with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Litigation OVER! NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8211; BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said Friday it agreed to pay $612.5 million to patent holding company NTP to settle a long-running dispute that had threatened to shut down the popular wireless e-mail service for its 3 million users. So, that ends that. And as a Blackberry user, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}