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Google Buys Motorola: very clever solution to the patent wars

9 pointsby pmattosalmost 14 years ago

2 comments

wccrawfordalmost 14 years ago
"I’d say where by “anti-competitive” he means “competitive”."<p>No, he meant what he said. They were being threatened with lawsuits left and right over patents. Patents that were trivial and should never have been granted. Their only defense was to grow some teeth of their own, or somehow remove their competitors' teeth.<p>So they did.
sjs382almost 14 years ago
<a href="http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/</a>