Google, being arguably the biggest offender of copyright infringements, much to the benefit of the average consumer and the chagrin of content providers, is now at it again. Google's NO (as in Nexus One, you heard it here first) phone and the open platform operating system that it runs on, "Android," are all lifted from Philip K Dick's seminal sci-fi novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." It's all fine and dandy except Google doesn't give Dick any credit, monetary or otherwise. So Dick's estate is not happy and when people are not happy they want monetary compensation and and when people want money they become litigious. Google probably would most likely settle should the Dick's estate sue. I think the same thing happened to Apple's iPhone too. You tried to get away with it and when you can't you just pay up. Simple.
As reported by WSJ.
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NO phone, good one, LCL. :D
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