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ikekkdcjkfke on March 16, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Serv...

So skyhook lays claim to an aggregate of wifi and gps, both technologies of which they have no chance developing.. Patents involving other advanced technologies should have much stricter requitements

0xFF0123 on March 18, 2024 | [–]

How does Google get around this? Or do they license?

deely3 on March 16, 2024 | [–]

How you differentiate between advanced technologies and not?

crankycoder1975 on March 18, 2024 | [–]

You can't.

Skyhook basically owns triangulation of rf. It's absurd.

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