Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jim Polaski Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) loses patent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX. Date: 3 Oct 2016 22:55:40 GMT Lines: 74 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net iQ05HvzeA9vbFI1aBigTcwoF3ifmwu4PXMOAoocYq0Un5U+sT/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tp3m/hkY0E4bXE3K7no2Z/a5v6w= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:95157 alt.privacy.anon-server:53702 alt.comp.os.windows-10:27374 comp.os.linux.advocacy:374597 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:104855 On 2016-10-03, GreyCloud wrote: > On 10/03/2016 02:54 PM, Jim Polaski wrote: >> On 2016-10-03, Silver Slimer <> wrote: >>> >>> On 2016-10-03 1:26 PM, Alan Baker wrote: >>>> On 2016-10-03 9:26 AM, Mongoose wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> "Jolly Roger" wrote in message >>>>> news:e5febgF4d7fU1@mid.individual.net... >>>>> >>>>> Fritz Wuehler >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Apple has been ordered to pay $302.4 million to the patent >>>>>> holding and security software company VirnetX >>>>> >>>>>> Oh no, the sky is falling! : D Corrupt court known for siding >>>>>> with patent trolls gives Apple a slap on the wrist for doing >>>>>> nothing wrong. >>>>> >>>>> You fangurls are really stupid. Apple screws you without >>>>> vaseline, and you bend over for more. >>>> >>>> How do they do that: by making products that people want and >>>> selling them at prices those people are willing to pay? >>> >>> Except they don't do that. They make LIMITED hardware at exorbitant >>> prices knowing that there are enough dumb people out there willing to >>> buy it as a fashion statement. >> >> I wouldn't go so far as to call them dumb people but they are people >> who like the Apple culture, prefer the ease of use right from the moment >> they take the system out of the box and so forth. >> And Apple support is number one by far. >> >> People are willing to pay extra for that. >> That being said, there is nothing magical about Apple hardware or >> software for that matter with one exception and that is it is all >> controlled tightly (although that seems to be fading a bit with the last >> updates) so it tends to work well together. >> >> >>>>>> $300 million is a drop in the bucket for a company that takes >>>>>> in over $18 billion a quarter. Apple makes enough money in >>>>>> profit to pay this fine in a couple days. Big deal. >>>>> >>>>> Especially in the light of they don't pay any taxes. >>>> >>>> Bullshit. >>> >>> It's accurate. Apple's taxes are mostly paid elsewhere and they've >>> been avoiding giving the United States even a dime. They went to court >>> over it near and after Jobs' death and Tim Cook was asked point-blank >>> why Apple avoids paying taxes in the United States. Try to pause your >>> fanboyism for a day to look it up. >> >> As long as Apple isn't doing anything illegal, they would be doing their >> shareholders a disservice if they were paying more taxes than legally >> required. >> >> The same goes for Trump BTW. >> What kind of an idiot doesn't try to reduce his taxes LEGALLY by using >> every line in the tax code to his advantage? >> >> Every single one of us in USA does it every year. >> Key word LEGALLY. >> > > Hehehe... even Hillary uses the tax code to her advantage. She wrote > off 'Used old underwear' on her return. I got this info from Hannity > off of his radio network. Probably because the local landfill refused to take it.