[redthrowaway]

Call me an optimist, but I don't see it happening with Larry in charge. Sure, they'll countersue Apple/Oracle/whoever, but I honestly don't see a Larry-run Google attacking competitors with patents outside of countersuits.

[JoachimSchipper]

Sun never offensively used patents, despite having an impressive pile of them. Then they got bought, and Oracle started suing.

I like Google, and I see that they need this deterrence, but let's not pretend that bad stuff can't happen.

[iwwr]

We could surely use something like GPL for patents.