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Re: [News] Shuttleworth Concerned About Patent Trolls (USPTO Loopholes), Not Microsoft

  • Subject: Re: [News] Shuttleworth Concerned About Patent Trolls (USPTO Loopholes), Not Microsoft
  • From: Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:59:28 -0800
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In article <2530676.7pv5jFsorT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different 
> | answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild 
> | of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much 
> | as 
> | $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from 
> | universities in Asia."   
> `----
> 
> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547
> -1_3-0-20

Why did you cite an article that you *know* is full of errors?  You are 
a regular reader of http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/.  You can't 
pretend that you don't know what a patent troll is.  Both of the 
entities he cites (the one you list, and the one you don't bother to 
list because you can't find any remote Microsoft connection) are 
entities that develop and commercialize the things they patent, which 
*by* *definition* makes them not patent trolls.

Oh, but that's right. Being accurate would have gotten in they way of 
your agenda, wouldn't it have?


-- 
--Tim Smith

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