On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Kevin Kluge <kevin.kl...@citrix.com> wrote: > Citrix is pursuing patents based on prior CloudStack work and expects to > continue to do > so in the future. Citrix is getting these patents to protect the CloudStack > user community. > Consider the case where some other entity states that the use of CloudStack >is infringing > on their patents. Citrix could use these patents to fight this entity and > defend the > community. An incremental benefit is that if Citrix (or any other > CloudStack-friendly > entity) has a patent then that patent cannot be acquired by an unfriendly > entity.
Anyone with about $15B can buy Citrix, and start wreaking havoc with the patents. See Google with its acquisition of Motorola, or Oracle with its acquisition of Sun (Java?). Or Citrix can sell its patent portfolio to a shell company, keeping a license and let the shell start suing the rest of the world (see Apple, Microsoft etc). There are many avenues to abuse the patents. Martijn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
