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The complaining was around companies needing to spend $4.5B in pre-emptive legal defense. The $4.5B being pre-emptive is extrapolated by me (and I'm assuming th
by SoftwareMaven 15y ago
The complaining was around companies needing to spend $4.5B in pre-emptive legal defense. The $4.5B being pre-emptive is extrapolated by me (and I'm assuming the author) from Google stating their $900M was.
Nowhere in the article did it even imply any of the players in this transaction were trolls.
- GHFigs 15y agoWhat was the point of saying that the size of the winning bid "echoes the sentiment" of a rant about Lodsys?
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoThe whole article was about "Software patents are bad". The Nortel auction was just one example of why patents are bad. Fred Wilson's comments were to back up that theme. Lodsys is just another example. Read it in that light, and things tie together much more smoothly. Whether it is good writing (e.g. effectively conveying a point) is questionable, since it obviously has cause confusion.