“Google doesn’t want to do what Motorola Mobility does (sell phones); it wants the company because it’s got a big heap of patents—seventeen thousand, apparently, with seven thousand more under review. And this is why today’s news is profoundly depressing.”
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Nicholas Thompson, The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/08/google-motorola-and-a-patent-war.html
