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> Apple and Microsoft have managed to turn that line thoroughly into mud by weaponizing patent trolling as a tool to wage proxy wars. Which is why I favor call
by fpgeek 12y ago
> Apple and Microsoft have managed to turn that line thoroughly into mud by weaponizing patent trolling as a tool to wage proxy wars.
Which is why I favor calling them patent ogres, not patent trolls. What Apple and Microsoft (most notably among others) are doing is different, but similarly troubling.
- rayiner 12y agoApple and Microsoft own an NPE: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Consortium http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Consortium
- throwawaykf05 12y agoRockstar claim to have made commitments to the DOJ and FTC to operate independently [1]. What do you make of that? 1. http://m.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=2a10f894-6812-44b5-a01c-d64562c4310f http://m.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=2a10f894-6812-4... (ctrl-f "commitments")