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WTF with people still quoting FOSS Patents Florian Mueller... that guy can be bought easily. He has no integrity
I think it is part of a plan to destroy western society by locking up all the courts and government with unanswerable questions such as "Who first thought of the rectangle?". Soon, there will be nothing left but a wasteland and some lawyers arguing over who gets to own half a dead cat while they warm their hands on oil drums full of burning currency.
This whole patent thing is turning Hobbes' hypothetical "War of All Against All" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellum_omnium_contra_omnes ) into reality.
We all knew that the second someone started wielding their "defensive" patents the whole system was going to fall apart. Well...here we go I guess.
The headline is incorrect; this is Motorola suing Apple, not Google, which has happened before (as the article states).
I stopped buying Apple products because of this patent nonsense, so I guess that means I can't buy that Nexus 7 I was eyeing either. Why is it that giant companies consistently act so evil?
But if you are planning on buying something, do it now. Soon you might not be able to buy anything.
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and why would they? It's not that they vowed to do no evil or something.
"Don't be evil" doesn't mean sit back and get sued to oblivion by your competitors like a selfless martyr.
Hence why Google is being investigated for anti-competitive behaviour by ITC/EU. Given the important of FRAND in the standards process this is very much being evil.
We all knew that the second someone started wielding their "defensive" patents the whole system was going to fall apart. Well...here we go I guess.
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If Google owns Motorola, they could put a stop to this if they wanted to, no?
No, Google cannot stop this. The only thing that can stop this is if Google, Apple, and Samsung all agree to stop doing it at the same time. Even then, the trolls will continue to decimate independent developers and occasionally catch a big fish for hundreds of millions of dollars until the patent system is reformed to exclude obvious and previously invented items. So far, Google and Samsung seem to be willing to tal…
In the past they seemed eager to talk rather than dispute because they had no weapons to defend themselves. Now that Google has acquired Motorola, they have the patents to go after anybody they want and that's exactly what they are doing.
Anyone know what the eventual end game of all these lawsuits will be? Will everyone just end up carrying on and suing for the next few decades?