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Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents by RexRollman on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:06AM (#2821023)
IBM has a history of using patents to extort money:

http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html

Re:Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents by dredmorbius on Friday July 29, 2011 @07:26AM (#2821227)
To the tune, if memory serves, of about $1b a year in the late 1990s. Though that number is challenged (estimated at closer to $135m/year): http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=9be3f156-79b1...