True, but you can't get to "no patents" via "more patents". If Google are genuinely against software patents, they should not participate, and fight them by ot

True, but you can't get to "no patents" via "more patents". If Google are genuinely against software patents, they should not participate, and fight them by other means, including entering "patent disarmament" agreements with other large companies. Organisations change, and the Google of tomorrow will probably be riddled with machiavellians and sociopaths, who consider the growing arsenal of software patents quite useful.