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The hypocrisy is unbelievable:

Google is a major investor in patent troll firm Intellectual Ventures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/05/intellectual-ventur...

Amazon, Apple, Cisco, eBay, Microsoft, etc. are also investors but they are not acting like whiny babies and acting all high and mighty going around preaching about how patents are destroying innovation.

The hypocrisy is unbelievable: Google is a major investor in patent troll firm Intellectual Ventures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/05/intellectual-ventur...

Amazon, Apple, Cisco, eBay, Microsoft, etc. are also investors but they are not acting like whiny babies and acting all high and mighty going around preaching about how patents are destroying innovation.

Fact 1:

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Google was willing to pay for $3-$4 billion for the same Nortel patents.

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Google's page rank algorithm is patented. if you don't believe in patents then why the hell do you own patents?

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Let me quote another commenter on another blog: "How many small and innovative companies has Google killed off by replicating what they do and making it available for free? Great way to keep the next Google from springing up."

Message to Google:

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You can use other people's technology, you just have to pay for them. You are being sued left and right not because there's some organized propaganda against you, it's because you STOLE from other companies.

...and believe it or not out of 100 Million Android users 1 Million will do exactly that.

there's more detail here http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/236924/google_...

"What we've actually been asked to do by Larry and Sergey is to investigate what technology alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome," Google engineer Tim Lindholm wrote in the Aug. 2010 e-mail, referring to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. "We've been over a hundred of these and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java."

The e-mail's contents were revealed last week during a hearing on whether the findings of Oracle's damages expert should be set aside.

"You are going to be on the losing end of this document" if its contents are revealed to a jury, Judge William Alsup told Google's attorney during the hearing.

"That's a pretty good document for you," Alsup said earlier to Oracle's lawyer. "That ought to be big for you at trial."

Google, however, doesn't want such a potential smoking gun to make it that far.

you don't have to do that. preload your uitableviewcell in ViewDidLoad, then in your cellForRowAtIndexPath, just return the array instead of the cell.

oh so it's good if Google's buying the patents?

the hypocrisy.