Re:Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has s...
by viraptor on Thursday March 03, 2011 @07:40AM
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I don't get you. So you're ok with the companies doing that, but not ok with the laws which allow them to? Normally, I'd say that some both things are a problem. How can you say X is bad, but doing X is ok, since the law allows it? That just sounds like hypocrisy to me...
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Re:Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has s...
by gradschool on Thursday March 03, 2011 @09:34AM
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I think the post is saying that patent trolls provide something like a way for small companies to outsource their patent enforcement, which arguably levels the playing field a bit, but not as much as patent reform would. (sounds reasonable to me)