bngdup
join:2007-02-20
Old Bridge, NJ Reviews:
 ·Cablevision
| Comcast uses the same thing Having personally known people who worked for Comcast Digital Voice I know they use SIP and Cisco VOIP gateways just like every other VOIP phone out there. The only difference between Vonage and Comcast is that its hard to run a packet capture on the COAX portion of the cable, so in other words their SIP messaging is less visable.
Its funny when I see morons posting things like "When Vonage needs some technology, they just steal it...". It must be nice living in a world where you believe everything a big advertisement tells you.
Verizon won a lawsuit that sets a precedent saying they own some basic internet process because they bought off a judge in Virginia and used some big fancy words to confuse the hapless citizens. Now that they have set the precedent they want to see who else they can sue and collect "royalties" from. Anyone who believes Verizon invented VOIP is a moron, plain and simple. I challenge any of you to prove me wrong. |
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 meister_sdPremium
join:2006-01-29
La Mesa, CA
kudos:7 | said by bngdup:Anyone who believes Verizon invented VOIP is a moron, plain and simple. I challenge any of you to prove me wrong. Verizon didn't have to invent it - just patent it first... Other craziness of our system. *sigh* |
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TheGhostPremium
join:2003-01-03
Lake Forest, IL | Problem is, they went for the patent after the working group came out with the specification. Kind of like what Rambus did, but maybe worse as they stole the idea from the working group and they pawned it off as their own. |
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bngdup
join:2007-02-20
Old Bridge, NJ Reviews:
·Cablevision
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said by meister_sd:said by bngdup:Anyone who believes Verizon invented VOIP is a moron, plain and simple. I challenge any of you to prove me wrong. Verizon didn't have to invent it - just patent it first... Other craziness of our system. *sigh* Right, but what too few realize is that they just patented an obscure process or idea that could be applied to many things, not only VOIP. |
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| i thought a company the bought/merged held the original patent, and verizon is now the owner, thus why they are going after these companies. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to TheGhost
Actually, Rambus snuck their patents into a standards committee without letting any of the other companies involved know. Then after everyone was making boat loads of money off the standards, they rang the bell. Personally I think it should have invalidated their patents on the grounds they gave them to the committee.
Anyway, both the patent and copyright rules need to be sent back in time to the early 1900s. Then they'd tell you to take a hike when you brought a business model in for patent, and your copyright would expire after 15 years or some such. |
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