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Re:Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement by ajross on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:00PM (#1162814)
All patent suits are evil. If all software patents were enforced, no new software could be written without licensing thousands or tens of thousands of patents from hundreds of holders. And no free software could be written at all. So the answers to all your your questions is "yes".

Except the last, which is kinda dumb. "BLOOPT" would no doubt be a trademark violation, you can't patent a name. But yeah, if Loopt filed a patent suit against someone simply for competing with them, then it would be evil too.

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Re:Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement by stcredzero on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @06:40AM (#1163880)
All patent suits are evil.

From what you are saying, it only follows that most patent suits are legal. I am sure one would eventually find the odd legit patent suit after a rigorous enough search. (Analogous to real avail among spam.)

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