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rokhayakebe
on Aug 15, 2011
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Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
Assuming they spent the money for patents, is this the best way to resolve this issue? Would it not be easier to throw 1M a thousand time over and let developers create solutions around these patents and open source the projects?
mythz
on Aug 15, 2011
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You can't code around patents, there is too many of them for any one person to know if you're infringing or not.
tlholaday
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You nées to pay the developer to create the workaround _and_ the litigator to prove in court that the workaround does not infringe.
fpgeek
on Aug 15, 2011
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And the time, patience and resources to survive the wave of legal attacks (including temporary setbacks) until the litigator succeeds...
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