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Not both sides. Apple and Microsoft has been waging anti-android patent war for ages, suing HTC, Samsung, Barns&Noble and many other Android manufacturers. Th
by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Not both sides.
Apple and Microsoft has been waging anti-android patent war for ages, suing HTC, Samsung, Barns&Noble and many other Android manufacturers.
They are publicly pro-patents and when they are failing in the marketplace are suing anyone who poses a threat to their business.
Google is publicly against patents, releases a lot of source code under Apache license that grants patent rights and, as far as I know, haven't launched an offensive patent suit (i.e. against someone who hasn't sued them first).
The Motorola lawsuits that Gruber (and quite a few anti-Google people) is so keen to quote happened years before Google acquired Motorola.
At this point I don't even understand why people expect Google to just take it and not launch offensive against Apple and Microsoft. You can be pro-peace but if someone points a gun at you and shoot, you shoot back and that's what Google should do: shoot back.
- IBM 13y agoI'd like to know where Apple has been public about patents because I find that surprising. If anything, there seems to be hardly any corporate communication addressing these types of things letting the media speculate to their heart's content. Your premise about Motorola is incorrect. Google was required to approve the patent assertions against Apple. From FOSS Patents: >A few months after that Zeitgeist talk, in January 2012, Google authorized a Motorola Mobility lawsuit against Apple over six patents in the Southern District of Florida. The merger agreement was publicly available and absolutely unequivocal about the fact that Motorola needed Google's consent prior to bringing new IP assertions while the merger was under antitrust review. But even if that weren't the case, there would be nothing stopping them from settling or withdrawing the case.