Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

Re:Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to paten... by gaius on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:26PM (#15060105)

Make it spin off YouTube, Maps/Earth, Translate, its public cloud, GMail etc etc.

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Re:Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to paten... by Sylphine on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:33PM (#15060121)

Yes but most of those services gain traction from the search engine. Google2 could quickly use FOSS code to integrate similar products to those that they would lose and even if they would be a MVP that would still do the trick. See what I mean ?

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Re:Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to paten... by gaius on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:41PM (#15060160)

Its the level of integration thats the problem, the way they can leverage dominant positions in markets A, B and C to conquer market D.

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