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Comment Kim Jung What (Score 1) 177

by BlameItOnWeed on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @09:12PM (#48664449) Attached to: Hackers Used Nasty "SMB Worm" Attack Toolkit Against Sony

Seriously, who are they kidding. No way North Korea could pull of a hacking stunt like that. Ever see the pics of the Supreme Leader and all his midget-sized elderly Generals in Military Uniform thoroughly taking notes (with pencil and paper) overlooking a "computer-whizz"? The closest they've been to Sony is the warn-off smudged logo on a 80's Walkman someone smuggled over the border

Submission + - Stupid Costly Patent Nuclear War By Microsoft & Apple Against Android Averte (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: We've written a few times about Rockstar Consortium, a giant patent troll that was created when Microsoft and Apple (and a few others) teamed up to outbid Google, Intel (and a few others) in buying thousands of Nortel patents. Nortel admitted that it had bulked up on many of these patents for defensive measures, but once Nortel went bankrupt they went to the highest bidder (and the bidding went pretty damn high).

The winners of the bidding kept a few of the patents for themselves, but then dumped them all into "Rockstar Consortium" which was a new giant patent troll and which, importantly, was not subject to promises that Apple and Microsoft initially made (to avoid antitrust problems) to license the patents under reasonable terms.

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