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RE: Patent Trolls
By kleinma on 11/8/2011 12:42:29 PM , Rating: 0
If you owned some software patents you probably wouldn't hate them. Way I see it, most people who complain about software patents simply don't have any IP at stake when it comes to them existing or not. All the "obvious should be thrown out" patents aside, which I am sure all large tech companies own a few of, android can't just grab and borrow from wherever the hell it wants and offer the thing for free to vendors to muscle into market share. Which is only something they can do because they monitize the service portions of it and force serveral google services onto the devices in order for the devices to be useful at all.

Don't get me wrong, I own an android phone, and for the most part I enjoy it, but that doesn't mean to me that I think they shouldn't have to license IP from companies who own it, whether it is MS, Apple, or someone else.

I don't know the figure, but Microsoft pays a shit load of money in licenses to use other IP in their own stuff, have been forced to pay out million when found to be infringing (willful or not) on someone elses IP, and they have tons of cross license agreements to offer their IP in exchange for the other companies IP usage.

