Yes. I think that software patents are a severe problem and I vote with my feet when it comes to this kind of issue.
I'm sure my one-man-boycott isn't going to impress anybody but that's the sweep your own street argument working for you.
It's a variation on the 'if one percent fallacy', 'if everybody does it then it will make a difference'. And I'm sure that not everybody - or even a small percentage - will do this, after all the only time when it will make Nokia recant is if the loss in sales outweighs their potential gain in this suit.
But that doesn't matter to me. Point of principle. You do software patents, I might buy your stuff. You sue using software patents (and there seems to be some confusion about that, the non-software issues are dead obvious, the software issues should never have been granted or should have become common property the second Nokia started pushing for those things to be accepted as standards).
Nokia was one of the parties pushing hardest to allow software patents in the EU:
I'm sure my one-man-boycott isn't going to impress anybody but that's the sweep your own street argument working for you.
It's a variation on the 'if one percent fallacy', 'if everybody does it then it will make a difference'. And I'm sure that not everybody - or even a small percentage - will do this, after all the only time when it will make Nokia recant is if the loss in sales outweighs their potential gain in this suit.
But that doesn't matter to me. Point of principle. You do software patents, I might buy your stuff. You sue using software patents (and there seems to be some confusion about that, the non-software issues are dead obvious, the software issues should never have been granted or should have become common property the second Nokia started pushing for those things to be accepted as standards).
Nokia was one of the parties pushing hardest to allow software patents in the EU:
http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Software_patents