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Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents by redthrowaway on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:06AM (#2820672)
Call me an optimist, but I don't see it happening with Larry in charge. Sure, they'll countersue Apple/Oracle/whoever, but I honestly don't see a Larry-run Google attacking competitors with patents outside of countersuits.
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Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents by JoachimSchipper on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:42AM (#2820801)
Sun never offensively used patents, despite having an impressive pile of them. Then they got bought, and Oracle started suing.

I like Google, and I see that they need this deterrence, but let's not pretend that bad stuff can't happen.

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Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents by iwwr on Friday July 29, 2011 @05:21AM (#2820899)
We could surely use something like GPL for patents.
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