Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google

Re:Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar... by sbuk on Saturday November 02, 2013 @02:48AM (#6658412)

You're not getting away with that. It's not OK to say one thing and do another. It called hypocracy and it's low and one thing that Google seem to be doing a lot of late. Here's the thing; Microsoft and Apple aren't abusing the system. They are playing exactly by its rules. Lodsys are a good example of an actor abusing the system. Is the system a bad one? That's a different debate.

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Re:Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar... by sbuk on Saturday November 02, 2013 @09:15AM (#6659082)

Furthermore the "they started" it argument is ridiculous. It doesn't matter who started it! It's also factually incorrect.

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Re:Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar... by cromwellian on Saturday November 02, 2013 @10:24PM (#6661903)

In an Iterated Prison's Dilemma, Tit-for-Tat and Win-Stay-Lose-Change are both viable winning strategies from a game theory point of view. If your competitor is playing one of those strategies, and you aren't, then not responding to an attack merely guarantees continued loses.

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Re:Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar... by sbuk on Sunday November 03, 2013 @01:38AM (#6662439)

In plain English, you are willing to forgive Google their transgressions because you feel that they are being attacked and you like/work for them, but not Apple/Microsoft for spurious reasons; this being the cognitive dissonance I alluded to earlier. When it is pointed out that this is not the actual case, you claim that that they are in fact being attacked and it's not fair, so they have to resort to the same tactics, which is forgivable because you like/work for Google. Google are as bad as Apple and/or Microsoft.

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