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

[Tim Watts]

If I had to guess, the goal here is to sue Android out of existence. Is
it good for a market when giants like these can team up to crush a
competitor? Crushing them with a more innovative product is one thing
but crushing them with a more advantageous monopoly position is quite
another.


On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:16 -0400, H P Ladds wrote:
> 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.
> 
> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hy96xdAe1B7P0qvWlFBC-C7hwzvg?docId=03166dd1084a4fb8a9c099a14cc6c346
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