[ale] Nortel sells 4.5B worth of patents. This can't be good.

[H P Ladds]

Microsoft and Apple (and several others) come together to buy 6,000
Nortel patents; is there any possible way this can be construed as a
good thing? Perhaps they'll sue each as they try to divvy-up the
rights to these patents.

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