Gruber, before the Motorla acquisition: "I never said it wasn’t OK for “Google to try and buy the same patents to not be sued.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracl

Gruber, before the Motorla acquisition: "I never said it wasn’t OK for “Google to try and buy the same patents to not be sued.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle — they’re all playing the game. If Google had won the Nortel patents, and used those patents to secure licensing agreements for other patents (from, say, Microsoft and Apple) — that’s how the patent game is played. What I’m complaining about isn’t Google playing the game, but rather their insistent whining about their competitors only after they lost the game." http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/more_on_google_and_patents http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/more_on_google_and_patents And again: "But what exactly does Google need to defend against, if not actual patents Android actually violates?" http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/google_patently_absurd http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/google_patently_absurd Summary: But now that Google has patents to "play the game", it's no longer OK to sue Apple for "actual patents it actually violates". Why? Because the patents aren't first hand. Google is - quite obviously - evil. The thing is, Gruber does this all the time, more so when it's Google he's talking about. His shape-shifting argument game is almost always played by linking to pieces whose central tenets are at odds with his own posts, cherry-picking some seemingly damning argument, and then adding a snide comment on top. Go back and trace his arguments regarding Android from beginning to see this in action. Gruber comes up with analytical, insightful stuff on a regular basis, probably more so than other tech commentators, but you also have to endure dross like this. "Lyons has always been an ass, but when did he get so bitter?" http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/balls http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/balls