[jacksmith21006]

Depends on what you consider "bad" versus "good".

But Microsoft getting patents to use for royalties or as a weapon to me is not as good as the Google approach.

Google does not use patents to get royalties but instead gives away tons of IP to help everyone or the entire industry move forward.

[dang]

Since we asked you to stop using HN to prosecute agendas about Google and you've posted dozens of comments since then doing exactly what we asked you not to do, I've banned this account.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with saying nice or critical things about $Bigco on Hacker News, be it Google or anyone else. But when it becomes both predictable and proliferating, it stops serving intellectual curiosity and that violates the purpose of this site. You crossed that line a long time ago, unfortunately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html