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Except that Apple broke the truce, so now out come the guns. Yawn.

By the time it happens, the time for defusing the situation and calling a truce is long past. The only opinion that matters is that of the judge and/or jury.

They happen to be in a mutual "truce" to act as one organism at the expense of individual cell survival. Most cells that break the truce do badly on their own and die out.

The tech industry just needs to agree that we'd all be better off with a truce, and lobby to change the laws. Personally, I'd like to see no patents for software and business methods.

He then tried to call a 'truce' and to hire a few of us, I was on a few conference calls that Kimble was on. I then bumped into him again a little later on, after he started MegaUpload.

I think this is a viable truce between people who hate ads and people who make ads. The only people who suffer from this on-going war to increase the snr of the Internet are website owners themselves.

The Palestinians should call it a day and agree to a truce, before Israel gets serious and wipes them out completely.

The right thing would be to convince Assad to offer a truce, step down, and allow a democratic election to happen. He'd have to be given protection, too, otherwise he'd never agree to stop, because he'd fear too much for his life.

In view of the ideological truce, the conformism of the buyers and the effrontery of the producers who supply them prevail. The result is a constant reproduction of the same thing.

Designers and programmers need to call a truce already. One will always believe they are more important than the other because they each think in totally different terms and have totally unique perspectives on the same project.

From my observations: The wording of many articles seems to be the result of a carefully applied 'truce' between long-standing edit warriors. Once applied, they tend to unite using terms like 'stable' or 'consensus'.

One counterargument I've heard is that we don't need "loser pays" for practicing entities because they can be countersued with your own portfolio, so you can eventually negotiate a truce based on MAD. To me, this misses the point. MAD is a workaround for some bugs in the patent system, not an end in itself.

Right now it’s because we have a mutual truce in which we agree businesses should employ people based on their skills and merit rather than to reward their political allies and punish their political opponents. Once you undermine that, gay people are in a pretty precarious position.

The truce between Apple and Microsoft had more to do with Apple focusing on the future and abandoning several frankly promising legal claims against Microsoft, including Microsoft's outright theft of the QuickTime source code. Promising to sell Microsoft Office for Mac was more important than the $150 million.

The moment things looks better, the same squabbling will continue, because the only reason there's anything resembling a truce between the parties in Italy now is that they all agree that for the moment the debt is the controlling issue, and everything up to and including this stage show is better than a default. Also, look up the history of Italy.

We need to recognize that increased efficiencies in personally-initiated communication are tearing apart the old truce between personal and commercial interests.

Personally I regard them as a suitable response to the way Apple is acting, and I hope more players go after Apple - unfortunately it seems escalation is the only hope of getting things to the point where they might get forced into a truce, since as long as Apple hasn't met any real opposition they've just kept escalating things.

I suppose it's too much to hope that this patent war keeps on escalating until the destructiveness of patents is evident to everyone, for at some point these big companies will declare a truce and turn their attention to smaller victims, at which point the patent war won't garner as much attention and it'll be back to business as usual: keeping the smaller companies from challenging the bigger ones.