Thread: ASEM business plan revealed?

I believe that I have figured out ASEM's business plan ... they're patent trolls.

Wilhelm filed a patent application last October ( http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090271173 ). The application is poorly written, but I gather that he is attempting to patent USB-key-based booting ACPI parsing.

That covers everything based on boot-132, along with Boot Camp and probably grub2 as well.

I think that the EFi-X's primary purpose was to add credibility to the patent application. They never intended the EFi-X to succeed long-term ... it just had to work long enough for the patent to be granted.

They'll try to kill Chameleon/PC-EFI by claiming patent infringement. After that, they'll start suing BIOS manufacturers. I don't think they're crazy enough to go after Apple, but Wilhelm does tend to think big ...

That guy Wilhelm is completely out of his mind...
I mean patenting "USB-key-based booting", like they truly invented it...

What's next? Patenting a wheel and suing Car manufacturers all over the world?

OMG & WTF.... I can't believe what I just have seen...

Are those idiots so crazy ??? I hope they don't succeed with this evil plan.

Crazy trolls.... Every informed user knows that this method is for making Mac OS X work on PC... I mean I won't use it to boot Linux, Windows or DOS ( XD ) ...
I'm so angry right now !

I hope Apple sues Wilhelm Vnukov. He want's to make money from something that's free and maybe illegal?

I hope Wilhelm Vnukov gets run over by truck, hit by lightning or something... That would make me very happy and warm inside.