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Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle by gpm on Thursday February 14, 2019 @11:16PM (#19168419)
> then the system is all cost and no benefit to you.

That's not strictly speaking true.

Having and using defensive patents has the advantage of disadvantaging competitors who don't have defensive patents but wish they did.

(Not that this is necessarily what djk44 would like to state as his reason for seeing benefits, just as a general fact)

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Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle by thaumasiotes on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:23AM (#19168881)
Rephrasing your point: By damaging some other people more than it damages you, the system may hand you a relative advantage over people who are hit more badly than you, even as it hurts you in absolute terms.

This is not a compelling argument that the system has any value. "Sure, it's destroying value at our company, but that's fine because it's destroying even more value across the street!"

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