Apple Fires Back Against The Trolls

This may be a picture of Lodsys' CEO.

Apple's legal team has fired off a letter to the trolls at Lodsys, basically telling them to lay off their threats to app developers over use of Lodsys patents on in-app purchasing. Apple's licensed those rights and app makers owe Lodsys nothing, according to Apple. Besides, Apple's lawyers are bigger, hairier, and meaner than yours. Nyah, nyah, nyah.

Hopefully this will shut down the attempt to extort fees from app developers; we'll see how Lodsys responds. My advice to them is to quietly slink away before Apple costs them more than they can ever hope to earn in the next few decades, by way of lawyer fees.