EFF Presses Apple To Indemnify Developers 93
Julie188 writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling on Apple to indemnify its developers from Lodsys — a patent troll that's alleging patent infringement on the in-app purchasing used by iOS apps. (That's the technology developed by Apple and forced on many of its developers.) The letters Lodsys has been sending out came to light on May 13th, and apparently developers have been asking Apple for help to no avail."
Just abolish software patents (Score:4, Interesting)
Tax laws (Score:4, Interesting)
You know when one posts an app to the App store they are first required to fill out tax information including whether or not Apple should withhold for taxes.
Couldn't it be argued that app developers are in effect employees of Apple and already indemnified?
For example if IBM has a license to use a patent, and they call in an outside contractor to work on a project using that patent... you couldn't sue the contractor since he was working for IBM.