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Re:Patent trolls put brakes on S.F. transit app by CamperBob2 on Saturday August 31, 2013 @10:37PM (#6308884)
Patent trolls seldom go after foreign businesses, or do anything else that even remotely looks like actual work.
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Re:Patent trolls put brakes on S.F. transit app by Grovara123 on Saturday August 31, 2013 @10:49PM (#6308915)
again - words... not facts...

Buying and litigating patents is A LOT of work.

I am not supporting them - but you can't discredit their work just because you don't believe in what they legally are entitled to do.

I don't support big oil or old-school-energy monopolies - but that doesn't mean I discredit what they do.

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Re:Patent trolls put brakes on S.F. transit app by ganeumann on Saturday August 31, 2013 @11:28PM (#6309017)
Buying and litigating patents is A LOT of work.

That's not an argument. Make-work is not valuable.

you can't discredit their work just because you don't believe in what they legally are entitled to do

Well, sure you can. Just because it's legal does not mean it's ethical. You're a lawyer, you should understand that.

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