[Discuss] Another entry on the care label manifest!

[Robert Cornell]

Google talk specifically about specific software but they do own hardware
patents.

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/lets-defend-innovators-against-patent.html

*Picked up from Slashdot.**Google has announced the Open Patent
Non-Assertion (OPN)
Pledge<http://www.muktware.com/5443/google-takes-pledge-not-sue-open-source-software-unless-first-attacked>.
In the pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor, or
developer of Open Source software on specified patents, unless first
attacked.**Source:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/28/194207/google-pledges-not-to-sue-any-open-source-projects-using-their-patents
*
Google has a history of supporting OS software and litigating against
hardware manufacturers.

My cynical side thinks maybe Google think it's cheaper to give them away
(or get 'free' community development) than defend them & Google gets to
partner or sue on commercial implementations.

Suggest: the 'care label' image looks like "the logo, but in a cage"!

Rob
--
openpart.co.uk
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