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Re:Google: Patently Absurd by Caballera on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @10:08PM (#2844197)
So what? Google is a relatively new company. To say they would spend all that money on patents and then not attempt to enforce them is very naive.
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Re:Google: Patently Absurd by Lewisham on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @10:27PM (#2844237)
Sun Microsystems did exactly what you are saying, and Google has gone on record, multiple times, saying it would do exactly what you are saying.

It is not without precedent at all.

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Re:Google: Patently Absurd by KaeseEs on Thursday August 04, 2011 @02:56AM (#2844970)
I don't think Google wants to follow Sun's example of developing amazing tech and going out of business anyways because the folks in charge don't know how to run a business.

Not that non-assertion of patents was necessarily a contributing factor to Sun's demise.

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