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Wow was that off topic.

Guy A: "Doesn't Amazon get software patents mainly to protect themselves rather than enforce them?"

Guy B: "Here's a long, extensive list of actions by other companies proving that software patents are evil!"

Sometimes I think people need to drink less Kool-Aid.



Read B again, and recognize that there is no such thing as a software patent "mainly to protect themselves". Consider the patent portfolio effect right from the first, wsj quote.


That you can find examples of people abusing patents is not proof that all patents exist to be abused.


It is hard to tell either way until the engineers in a startup have created the "infringing" technology and it is well established in the marketplace.




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