{"id":459,"date":"2011-08-11T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2011-08-11T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:09:22","slug":"the-bad-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-bad-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The bad apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that one bad apple can make the whole fruit basket go bad. Lately the big &#8216;apple&#8217;\u00a0 has been getting bigger and &#8216;badder&#8217;. Now, I&#8217;m not a really a fan of them (Apple) &#8211; having a more MS background but I won&#8217;t bash them unless it is really necessary. Truth is, they have\/had it coming.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest news (just in case you haven&#8217;t been keeping up to date) Apple is suing competitors left right and center &#8211; this all because of &#8216;patent&#8217; issues. Again, I&#8217;m not an Samsung\/Android\/Google specific fan but, suing someone because they have a product that looks like yours and you didn&#8217;t even invent the original concept (patents were bought from others) just means one thing &#8211; you suck at business. The fact that you had to buy a patent for something you want to sell means your only intent is to blackmail\/screw others with it. Yes, many companies does it these days (even MS) and personally I think the idea stinks (sucks\/blows or whatever way you want to refer to it). As far as I&#8217;m concern patents should not be purchasable\/sell-able since it destroy the very idea why they were created (giving the creator a chance to do something with the idea before others can. If he\/she\/it can&#8217;t make the idea work the patent should be made null and void). Also, patents should only be applicable to physical working things &#8211; machines, gears, guts &#8211; in my opinion. The whole &#8216;software patent&#8217; idea is a bit scaly if you ask me &#8211; too many blurry lines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is time we\/someone empty the basket so we can start &#8216;fresh&#8217; again (picking fruit or something)&#8230; hehe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that one bad apple can make the whole fruit basket go bad. Lately the big &#8216;apple&#8217;\u00a0 has been getting bigger and &#8216;badder&#8217;. Now, I&#8217;m not a really a fan of them (Apple) &#8211; having a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-bad-apple\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[48,67],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-apple","tag-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}