[ale] Nortel sells 4.5B worth of patents. This can't be good.

[H P Ladds]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
> If I had to guess, the goal here is to sue Android out of existence.

It is interesting that Google is excluded from the party. Their invite
must have been misplaced.

> Is it good for a market when giants like these can team up to crush a
> competitor? Crushing them with a more innovative product is one thing
> but crushing them with a more advantageous monopoly position is quite
> another.
>
>
> On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:16 -0400, H P Ladds wrote:
>> Microsoft and Apple (and several others) come together to buy 6,000
>> Nortel patents; is there any possible way this can be construed as a
>> good thing? Perhaps they'll sue each as they try to divvy-up the
>> rights to these patents.
>>
>> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hy96xdAe1B7P0qvWlFBC-C7hwzvg?docId=03166dd1084a4fb8a9c099a14cc6c346
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