They have to do something and they have to do it at a price that will stop others and make them think before they try to counter Google's offer. Yes, Nokia would have been a better choice but then there is the thought that Motorola split off its division so it could sell it. In other words, there were plans a while back and Motorola sees this as a benefit to themselves getting a huge amount of cash and being on the inside with Google.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > > > -- > 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 javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com www.sellerstoolbox.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.
