Mitchell Baker: Beyond Sustainability [LWN.net]

Mitchell Baker: Beyond Sustainability

Posted Oct 23, 2007 19:02 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: Mitchell Baker: Beyond Sustainability

This report is like saying "Hey, patent trolls!  Money!"

Maybe the safest thing to do is give half the money back to Google to become a co-sponsor of
Summer of Code, and take the other half and hire as many as possible of the toughest software
patent firms to get patents on everything web-related.

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It's a tiny amount of money

Posted Oct 25, 2007 5:09 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

If you've got a nice trollish patent that purports to cover standard web browsers, there's another vendor you can go after that made a whole lot more than $68M last year.