Maybe they'll just buy the "several others" who are at the party after the dust settles.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:49 PM, H P Ladds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:householdwords@gmail.com">householdwords@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Tim Watts <<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> If I had to guess, the goal here is to sue Android out of existence.<br>
<br>
</div>It is interesting that Google is excluded from the party. Their invite<br>
must have been misplaced.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> Is it good for a market when giants like these can team up to crush a<br>
> competitor? Crushing them with a more innovative product is one thing<br>
> but crushing them with a more advantageous monopoly position is quite<br>
> another.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:16 -0400, H P Ladds wrote:<br>
>> Microsoft and Apple (and several others) come together to buy 6,000<br>
>> Nortel patents; is there any possible way this can be construed as a<br>
>> good thing? Perhaps they'll sue each as they try to divvy-up the<br>
>> rights to these patents.<br>
>><br>
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