HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week

Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by chc on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @09:25PM (#2972231)

It's "Don't be evil" — a much less ambitious goal. Ordinary people do marginally evil things all the time without being thought of as being evil on the whole.

And it's a pretty weird morality where protecting yourself makes you, as a whole, "evil."

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Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by Steko on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @09:43PM (#2972275)

I don't see where Good or Evil enter into any of this.

Does Android/HTC infringe on some Apple patents? Maybe.

Does Apple infringe on some of these patents Google has given to HTC? Maybe.

Are the likely outcomes more favorable to Android/Google/HTC with Google having given HTC these patents? Almost certainly.

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Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by barista on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:50AM (#2972671)

So that's how you justify Google's actions? By play of words?

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Re:HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week by bad_user on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:57AM (#2972689)

In my eyes, Google is just a Microsoft wannabe.

That said, I do not think their current actions are in any way evil or immoral. In fact I would lose faith in Android if they weren't doing this.

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