[Drakeman]

It's been a while, but a long time ago I heard the phrase, "The Rolling Stones are not in the music business, they're in the t-shirt selling business." In that way, I think if you examine Google's practices and its strategy with Android, it's that Google is an advertising company. It's where all their money comes from. Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle are traditional software companies in the sense they derive their profits from consumers and businesses purchasing services.

> They may have dressed it up as pious and open – but for their purposes, it's a land grab. Is it anticompetitive? I'm not sure.

Well, then, isn't GNU/Linux in general anti-competitive? Or free-libre software since many developers don't charge for services?

As for Google's trustworthiness with patents versus patent-abuse, anyone know a site with a good summary of Google's patent disputes?