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AOL has confirmed that it is selling Microsoft a bundle of over 800 pieces of its patent portfolio for $1.056bn, and will be licensing its remaining intellectual property to Redmond and others. "The agreement with Microsoft represents the culmination of a robust auction process for our patent portfolio," said AOL CEO Tim …
> Re: GOOD WORK MICROSOFT
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> > > > GOOD WORK MICROSOFT
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> > > > A COMPANY CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY SIMPLY BY OWNING PATENTS I THINK
> > > > STEVE BLAMMER AND I THINK A LOT ALIKE
> > > ME TOO
> > ME TOO
> ME TO
ME TOO
Unfortunately, this means, given the fact that banks will have stashed their bailout money into exactly such a bubble [the bailout money now holding up your ever-decreasing-in-real-terms pension payout against total annihilation] BIG BOOM SOUNDS SOON. Then further destruction and wailing, followed by cries for more bailouts, socialization of unsustainable debt through TARP 2020, praising of Keynes [and a flood of books praising the genius of Keynes], praising of Marx, Stalin or Roosevelt and loud demand for "government job programs" (which will probably consist in recycling burnable materials and copper from deserted, dead towns). As well as appearances of Michael Moore. Oh God.
I can't wait.
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Well, just so long as the crazy patent malarkey involves Google and Microsoft having equal share, then it should keep both at bay.
How long before we see Microsoft and Google joining forces I wonder? Microogle? Gosoft?
Bound to happen eventually and it'll be interesting to see what develops that causes that alliance.
Maybe Facebook and Apple will join forces.
Who would be fighting the good fight then?
....new innovations. companies doing well because people wanted their stuff because it was good. other people copied then more new innovation came out to stay one step ahead. these days its justed turned into my patent blah blah.
it just sucks now. it really needs to come to an end.
btw, not using capital letters in postings is my invention/ip/.... keep away..... ;)
but as opposed to government debt, the write-off term is well-defined. Just too bad about your pension accounts. Anybody holding Microsoft, Google, Apple, Samsung ...? Ten cents of your dollar just went to subsidize the ailing legal industries.
Just make sure you save enough for retirement (maybe go for some rare-earth collection under your mattress, I heard it's bound to appreciate in value and if it didn't, the poisonous parts may offer an easy way out).