On Aug 16, 7:01 am, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > According to CNN, Google said "it wants to buy Motorola Mobility to defend > against > patent lawsuits levied by its competitors." That is $12.5 billion dollars > not spent > on innovation but spent instead to help counter-attack against patent > lawsuits. That > seems like a fairly logical conclusion to me. > > Ralph
On the other hand, it's fair to argue that without the possibility of selling these patents then Motorola may well have never made the investment required to innovate at a level that produced thousands of these patents. By buying these patents, Google have therefore justified the investment in innovation made by Motorola. -- 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.
