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Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Patents From Interested Sellers

Posted by samzenpus on from the fighting-the-trolls dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google has announced an experimental marketplace called the Patent Purchase Promotion, which aims to keep patents out of the hands of patent trolls. From the announcement: "By simplifying the process and having a concentrated submission window, we can focus our efforts into quickly evaluating patent assets and getting responses back to potential sellers quickly. Hopefully this will translate into better experiences for sellers, and remove the complications of working with entities such as patent trolls."

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  1. The evil plan by qbast · · Score: 3, Funny

    And in ten years Google hits whole industry with massive patent attack.

  2. Patent troll by SYSS+Mouse · · Score: 2, Funny

    so will Google become a patent troll themselves?

  3. Better than Google+ by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well at least it is a better way to spend their money than Google+.

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  4. Patent trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You know, sometimes an industry spawns really annoying things. The patent industrie's "annoying thing" are the trolls. First, they aquire some patents, then they wait until everybody uses it, and then they go out and sue everybody who seems to have some pennies left. I think this behaviour is really shit. I mean, only systemd is worse. What is worse than some kid developers feeling superior and trying to reinvent the wheel and breaking everything without caring at all? Everybody can program a sketchy new init with the newest features. But making it reliable, that's the hard part. Systemd people don't seem to value reliability at all. Or portability. Ever tried systemd without glibc? Forget it. Ever tried to port systemd to glibc? No, maintaining it is too much effort. Rather spend some time rewriting even more of my /bin directory. I mean I understand it, the internet is full of weird people. But why do distros have to adopt this code that's more a proof of concept than software?

    Many proponents of systemd say that it is neutral, and depending applications can work with other systemd forks too. This might be true, but the design of libsystemd tells me sonething completely different. Its just requiring systemd. You can port it, but it would be horribly ugly. This is perhaps something you can do in your little pet project at home, but not THE NEW DEFAULT INIT FOR NEARLY THE WHOLE LINUX WORLD. Its really a pity to see that young developers like poettering don't even get the basics at operating system API design.

    The systemd people don't even wait like the patent trolls until they show their ugly side. systemd itself is one huge shitpile of an ugly side. How could distros ever install that shit? How much did NSA bribe? Who asks me, as user?