Editorial: Was Google’s Purchase Of Motorola More About Damage Control Than Patent Woes-

Editorial: Was Googles Purchase Of Motorola More About Damage Control Than Patent Woes-

If you head over to FOSSPatents this morning, you’ll find a rather lengthy article about Google’s acquisition of Motorola that ends with the following conclusion:

Google bought MMI to prevent the worst for Google’s strategy, not to make things better for everyone else.

In a way, the .5 billion price represents protection money. But not in the way most people seem to think.

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This statement is obviously contrary to the heaps of coverage the Motorola-Google deal received from  major news outlets, blogs, and Android ent…

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Editorial: Was Google’s Purchase Of Motorola More About Damage Control Than Patent Woes-
Artem Russakovskii – androidpolice.com

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