Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
by lern_too_spel on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:15PM
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> stifle 2 decades worth of search engine innovation with their patents
Did that company use those patents offensively?
> patent novel compression techniques belonging to others
Same question. Also https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/84214.html
> completely wipe out a rich and varied mobile telephone industry
Huh?
Your examples aren't very good. The biggest evil thing Google has done is join Jobs's no-poach agreement. It remains to be seen whether their China project will surpass that. On patents in particular, Google has thus far been very reasonable.
I'm just picking on Google here, but you could make a list like this for any large tech company, which is my point. But somehow this always comes up in the context of Microsoft, as if somehow they are are particularly more evil than just about anyone else.