Personally I don't approve of _software_ patents but these ones don't bother me that much. I don't really see this different from all the other patent licensing

Personally I don't approve of _software_ patents but these ones don't bother me that much. I don't really see this different from all the other patent licensing deals we have with the rest of the (wireless) industry. These are part of the way these standards are developed (available under FRAND licenses) and licensed. If you want to bring in a moral perspective I personally feel that a bigger problem is what to do about "legal intercept" features. Especially when selling equipment to countries with regimes that want to misuse them. But lets say this included some trivial (or non-trivial) software patent and this jointly owned company started trolling a lot of individual developers and/or smaller companies. Then I would feel different about this.