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Oracle may claim that Google infringes on all those patents, but they'll never sue. Patents are just a nuclear deterrent. Edit: Wow, -7 and dropping. I gues
by shasta 16y ago
Oracle may claim that Google infringes on all those patents, but they'll never sue. Patents are just a nuclear deterrent.
Edit: Wow, -7 and dropping. I guess I should have included a sarcasm symbol. Spoiler: My point was that patents do get used, and this argument about them just being for defense is nonsense.
- mhansen 16y agoThe first sentence in TFA: Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.
- CamperBob 16y agoThe article is by some moron journalist who doesn't know that there's a difference between patents and copyrights.
- zb 16y agoTo be fair to the journalist concerned, if you read to the bottom of the complaint you'll find that there are 7 claims of patent infringement and 1 of copyright infringement.
- nl 16y agoWell they just sued based on those patents, so I guess it's nuclear war now?
- eli 16y agoWell, there would be no reason to build a defense in the first place if NOBODY ever went on the offense.
- napierzaza 16y agoFYI there was never a global nuclear holocaust; but people still built nukes. In fact there was never direct fighting between the US and Russia...
- russell 16y agoAt the risk of being a pedantic jerk, the US did send troops to fight on the side of the Czar against the Bolsheviks. They were withdrawn when they found out how bad the Czarists were. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition
- YuriNiyazov 16y agoWhere in that link does it say that the Czarists were bad?
- russell 16y agoSorry, missing reference. I probably overstated the cause and effect, but it does seem to me that it contributed to the morale problems of the American troops. >> The American commanders in the field reported that the Czarist reign of terror was far more horrific and disturbing that the actions of the Reds. The American forces also discovered that the vast majority of Russians sympathized with the Bolsheviks and supported the revolution. In the end, the American troops were brought home without any fanfare, and the ordeal was considered one of the most ill-conceived interventions in American history up to that time. From http://rationalrevolution.net/war/russian_revolution.htm http://rationalrevolution.net/war/russian_revolution.htm
- moomba 16y agoI'm assuming he was talking about the cold war period. Russia and the US didn't have nukes 1918-1919.
- Confusion 16y agoA nuclear deterrent only works if both sides have nukes. Google is a pretty young company, with few patents. Oracle is a much older company, that bought many old companies along the way. Oracle's patent portfolio vastly outstrips that of Google.
- napierzaza 16y agoGoogle has no patents? I doubt that.
- daveungerer 16y agoWe currently have enough nukes to destroy the world many times over. If you take the comparison between patents and nukes to its logical conclusion, the same probably holds. Google vs. Oracle == mutually assured destruction, regardless of how much bigger Oracle's portfolio is.