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These types of agreements might mean that we move from "software patents held by tech giants" to "software patents held by a cartel of tech giants". That would
by joliss 13y ago
These types of agreements might mean that we move from "software patents held by tech giants" to "software patents held by a cartel of tech giants". That would be worse.
An agreement like this might avoid the next high-profile lawsuit, but instead of fixing the patent system it's tapering over the most visible symptom, creating a patent oligopoly in the process.
Maybe I'm seeing things, but I'm just having Google's ongoing anti-poaching scandal fresh in mind.
- justin66 13y agoNothing systemic has changed. It's just a little harder for Apple to be litigious with Samsung and Google, that's all. There are still plenty of other players in the patent lawsuit business.