[PLUG-TALK] Who's suing who?

Richard plug at hackhawk.net
Sun Sep 16 23:45:39 UTC 2012


On 9/16/2012 10:21 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/patent-wars_5029188da363c.png
>
> Looks like the treaties and the skirmishes before World War 2.
>
> On that probably incomplete chart, it seems to be Microsoft
> and Apple (the axis of evil) versus the rest of the industry.
> Google is doing more cooperative licensing than anyone else.
>

Thanks for posting this Keith.  I have trouble explaining the nature of 
the problem to my non-techie friends.  This should help illustrate the 
problem at least somewhat.

I have thought that Google has been more into cooperative licensing.  
They seem to be more reasonable than MS/Apple.




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