It's not entirely clear to me (from looking at the splash page in the link) that you'd even need to file FOIA requests for the information. There are several sites linked which supposedly already provide the data.
I think the more unfortunate part is not having it in a single place, tied together in a coherent way. Which is not to say that this website did so effectively, just that there's some value in doing that.
I wasn't aware of these efforts to block the merger before reading this article. After reading about them, and AT&T's attempts to sue them away, I'm actually making a point of filing a complaint against the merger today.
Thanks AT&T, for calling to my attention a means by which I can help to try punishing you for your persistent and longstanding shittiness as a company.
Huh? Safari on iOS supports div scrolling just fine (at least, on my iPad with 4.3.3). I know it worked in earlier iOS 4 revisions on an iPhone, as well.
>Oh, and that's why we blame Apple/Microsoft for using the patent system in this manner. It's unethical.
They're big companies fighting other big companies with legal resources, legally acquired. The law is written to provide patent holders with the rights to sue for infringement on their patents. And these are not just companies that buy up IP to sue others - they're also two of the biggest names in the industry and produce products that incorporate this IP, and engage in research to further develop their technology.
So, what's unethical about it? Are you saying it's only ever ethical to engage in patent litigation if you yourself are first sued? Or, perhaps, that a company that engages in patent litigation and receives money in settlement is being unethical? Or is just unethical to sue Google and Android phone manufacturers for some reason? If Google or HTC or whomever had sued Apple/MS previously, would it then ok to go after them with patent suits?
Your point was that google hasn't sued anyone, which is pretty much a non sequitur without the assumption that this would've remained the case if they'd won the Nortel bidding.
NeXT got bought out by Apple; it also produced the core OS, and language and runtime that would become the software cornerstone of Apple's resurgent computer products, as well as the new iOS family of devices.
If I have to waste my money, I'd easily settle for wasting it the way Steve Jobs did in founding NeXT.
Most people buy phones in wireless providers' stores, get them provisioned there, and then leave with a functioning phone.
The idea of a bare phone that you can do whatever you want with would be appealing to a vanishingly small portion of the phone buying population. Everyone else would ask to see the iPhone, a Blackberry, or one of them Windows phones, because having to do do an OS install on a cell phone before you can use it would be a hasslicious waste of time for most people.
I think the more unfortunate part is not having it in a single place, tied together in a coherent way. Which is not to say that this website did so effectively, just that there's some value in doing that.