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There's a world of difference between filing protective patents and using patents offensively against your competitors. Until fairly recently, this was consider
by cageface 13y ago
There's a world of difference between filing protective patents and using patents offensively against your competitors. Until fairly recently, this was considered to be something that was largely beneath the dignity of the big players in the industry.
And, even if Android were completely closed, it would still occupy the higher moral ground since Google did not instigate this war and would be happy to see it end.
- pazimzadeh 13y agoWhat if to Apple, the war started when Eric Schmidt stayed on Apple's board of directors while Google was developing a direct competitor to the iPhone?
- cageface 13y agoOr perhaps, earlier still, when Apple revealed their intention to roll out a platform over which they had complete gatekeeper control over any third party software installation?