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Re:Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime La... by ReAzem on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:48AM (#11034195)
That is what I think. It's not a huge problem for Apple. It seems like to stay competitive in this market you have to play the troll's game and Apple has shown many times that it knows the game very well. In the end, it probably balances out. I'd like to see numbers on this.

The real issue is small players getting buried under legal fees.

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Re:Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime La... by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday February 04, 2016 @10:11AM (#11034372)
Apple getting trolled sucks for the rest of us too sometimes. FaceTime was going to be an open standard.
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Re:Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime La... by mariusz79 on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:54AM (#11034241)
Hopefully if the big boys get burned by trolls, they will finally decide to do something about the current patent system.
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Re:Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime La... by iolothebard on Thursday February 04, 2016 @10:17AM (#11034416)
They're the biggest trolls, like OP said.

Patents are a fucking joke in the age of technology. Fucking 20 year monopoly for a button, laughable.

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