Google Buys Motorola: very clever solution to the patent wars(daringfireball.net)
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Google Buys Motorola: very clever solution to the patent wars
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/15/google-moto
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/15/google-moto
No, he meant what he said. They were being threatened with lawsuits left and right over patents. Patents that were trivial and should never have been granted. Their only defense was to grow some teeth of their own, or somehow remove their competitors' teeth.
So they did.