Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll Intellectual Ventures

Re:Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll ... by jonlucc on Friday April 11, 2014 @01:17PM (#7574178)

Just for clarification, is it a different guy entirely, or is he just exposing a much darker side?

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Re:Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll ... by chasing on Friday April 11, 2014 @01:31PM (#7574253)

Same guy. He likes to turn up in places like the recent Freakonomics book and the Colbert Report to show off his brilliance. But his actual day job is this nonsense.

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Re:Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll ... by midas007 on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:45PM (#7575808)

So a glorified crowbar-wielding thug that says:

"Pay your protection fees or else we're heading to the kangaroo courts of East Texas."

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