On the contrary...

Posted Oct 4, 2010 13:24 UTC (Mon) by Lefty (guest, #51528)
In reply to: On the contrary... by khim
Parent article: Microsoft sues Motorola, citing Android patent infringement (ars technica)

Not every battle is worth fighting...

Well, you don't get to choose whether or not to "fight" a patent suit in which you've been named. I don't think Google has enough to "surrender" to get itself out of this in that fashion, and I suspect that Oracle, at least, is not interested in playing that way.

Sorry, but no.

Well, you can speculate about it all you want, but these particular patents have not lost at any trial so far. If you want to see the matter settled, then you should be gratified to see Google getting taken to court. Maybe they will manage to invalidate those patents. Having actually read them, though, I don't share your confidence here, and given the number of patents that Google (or its Android-phone-manufacturing tributaries) have been accused of violating, I seriously doubt they're going to be able to get them all invalidated. Be interesting to see them try.

Why do you think Bill Clinton never used such defense before the Senate? The answer is simple: public figures are different. They are held to higher standards.

Except that "public figure" has a pretty specific meaning, and while Bill Clinton might qualify, it's highly doubtful that Florian does. Your arguing that he's a "public figure", purely in order to allow you to call him names with impunity, seems to suggest that your actual interests here stem largely to trolling for effect. You're certainly not doing yourself any favors here with this.