> > NB: Love Robert Casto's observation that if you have to be financially > strong to protect patents, then the inevitable conclusion must be that > the patent system is broken :) > > On Sep 25, 4:38 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
Note quite. Sun probably didnt sue Google, because its a little bit dumb to sue someone who is also a potential buyer, after all they still managed to spend $1B on MySql ( i never fully understood the value in that deal)... -- 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.
