If you have to be financially strong to protect your patents, then how do you protect yourself from others who are hurting you by abusing your patents?
If Sun didn't sue because they couldn't afford to, I would say that they couldn't afford not to. Their very existence was on the line. If they believed Google was hurting them, Sun should have gone after them and gotten money to keep themselves alive. Sounds like a symptom of a broken patents system to me. 2010/9/24 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> They aren't legal averse like sun was, >> > > I'm not sure what makes you say that, they protected their software > patents, trademarks and intellectual property aggressively like most > companies do (did we already forget the Microsoft lawsuit?). > > They just couldn't afford to litigate in their last years. > > -- > Cédric > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
