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we made the business decision to fight every time every troll every patent and
since then we've been fighting and we've been winning but it's expensive and it's
hard and that's why we've been also big supporters of a patent reform
a patent troll is somebody who spends their primary business activity is filing law suits.
people arestarting to use the legal system as a cudgel did meet other people with
exploiting this inefficiency in the legal system to extort settlements and
these are settlements on patents they never come out come out in the first
place we've been sued for running Linux
there's a patent that we were sued for, for your cell phone you know
when your cell phone and the display rotates
we tried to respond to the lawsuit
you call and you ask for an extension of time, and they said, "You know what? we've
been authorized to offer anybody who contacts us an immediate settlement for $75000,"
and we said, "no we're going to fight you"
and ultimately they said "How about 50? How about 25? How about 0?"
Finally we ultimately ended up in validating their patent and it
they had someone just told me today when they looked through them has like 400
companies in the queue to sue
this was such a threat to innovation
innovation was so important to us that we had to fight