On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> The point is this is BILLIONS of dollars that > allegedly did not go in any shape form or fashion towards innovation. > Again: too soon to tell. I can think of a lot of different outcomes, but here is one example: Google doesn't buy Motorola Mobility, then gets sued year after year by various vendors, wins some suits, loses some others, and all this money spent on litigation could have been used to innovate. Another scenario: because they acquired Motorola Mobility and its 20,000+ patents, competitors are more hesitant to sue Google. It doesn't matter how good these 20,000 patents are, it's just that there are so many that suing Google is pretty much guaranteed to cause collateral damage. Bottom line: Google and its competitors go back to innovating instead of suing each other. And yes, there are equally bad scenarios that will point to killing innovation, and that's my point: we just can't tell the effect that this acquisition will have, and we won't for a while. Personally, I think that this acquisition will allow Android to keep innovating a lot, and I'm betting that this is what Google is counting on as well. -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
