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Google Reaffirms Stance Against Software Patents

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has again publicly affirmed its stance against software patents during an announcement over a potential defensive acquisition. These days, when Microsoft, Apple, and others are abusing software patents, it's nice to see one large company calling them junk."

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  1. Learn who is patent troll and who is not by devoks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice to see yet another twisted summary. As everyone knows, Microsoft doesn't really abuse their patent portfolio. They have never used it to patent troll. Only times they've used their patents is when defending against patent trolls themself. Otherwise Microsoft never has attacked other companies.

  2. Re:In fairness... by Desler · · Score: 1, Troll

    Granted, there are things they don't open source, but they do release a lot.

    Get back to us when they actually open source something of value. Not these little bread crumbs that make them little to no money. And before someone says BUT ANDROID!!! the part that makes money on Android is not Android itself its the ad platform on Android and that is closed-source. Get back to us when they open source GoogleFS, make public all their private Linux kernel changes, open source the Adsense/Adwords platforms, open up things like Google Earth, make their implementation of PageRank open source. Until then, you can bleat on and on about Google is some grand open source company yet anything of real value is almost always kept proprietary.