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Re: [News] World Day Against Software Patents Ends; Oracle a Patent Slammer

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____/ chrisv on Thursday 25 September 2008 13:05 : \____

>> Hadron snotted:
>>> 
>>> Oh! You snipped the links to the Oracle patents they have used for the
>>> past 20 years to become billionaires.
> 
> Dumbshit.  I would suppose that they felt that they HAD TO collect a
> "war chest" of patents as a defensive measure, because everyone else
> is, too.
> 
> That's the "excuse" that you Micro$oft lovers give for their
> collecting of patents.  "They never plan on using them offensively",
> we are told.
> 
> They can still collect patents while lobbying against them.  No
> hypocrisy there, you stupid POS.

Microsoft recently attacked 2 companies using its patents, striving to set an
embargo in the process.

There are two types of goals in patent-trolling; the first has revenue
extraction as its goal and the second is driving products out of the market.

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