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Google should now spend Pi billion dollars lobbying the US government to abolish software patents. ;-)

• nsomaru 15y ago
  heh, that would make me gulp if I had spent 4.5bn on some paper 0_0
  • Daniel14 15y ago
    It wouldn't make me, because you can't just buy changes of the law, not even in the US. Three billion dollars is a lot, but will never match what other big companies stand to lose from software patents becoming less important. This is the worst possible outcome for Google and the open source community. Apple, MS, Sony and others will be able to sue everyone - but not each other. And after laying that amount of cash on the table, they will. Google is right to be pissed off, but they can't do much about it.
• Mvandenbergh 15y ago
  Sure, but remember that a lot of these Nortel patents are hardware patents. Does anyone have a link to a good overview of what kind of things are in the portfolio?