and besides, the onus of citation should be on you with your crazy broad assumption that Fred has placed 'immense pressure' on startups to generate patents.
Will you please stop? The fact that you're having to hop all over this thread defending yourself should make you reconsider what you said, not start calling third parties liars for contradicting you.
But the fact that he has to "hop all over this thread defending" does not mean he is wrong in what he is saying. Edit: It just means the group here does not agree with what he is saying. The group has disagreed with what I have said in the past as well.
I appreciate hearing his views although he uses language that I wouldn't use "lie" etc.
But I also don't believe in bullying. Saying "will you please stop?" in a "we don't need you around here" way seems parental and a put down to me regardless of whether it's deserved or not.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/yahoo-crosses-the-line.html#...
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/yahoo-crosses-the-line.html#...
more importantly, where is there even a single citation of Fred placing immense pressure on even a single startup to generate a patent?
You should retract your comment, since you made it all up.
Claiming someone is guilty by association or virtue of their profession is bad form.