On 08/16/2011 03:33 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
So, looking at it like that, they just dropped 12,000 million dollars on a patent portfolio. Boy. That's hard to comprehend, isn't it?
I think we should wait for some time to understand, in any case I don't think you buy a large corporate for a single reason. In any case, I'd not be surprised if it's largely a patent thing. I think Google has learned the Sun/Oracle lesson, and competitors are getting more and more aggressive on the patent thing (I think I've not seen the news here, but Apple managed in suspending Galaxy Tabs in the whole Europe - AFAIU for a design trademark (?)). Perhaps it's better to have some more weapons to fire back.
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