Twitter pledges to limit use of patents in lawsuits

Robert Merges quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2012

“Sun was fairly altruistic in their views about intellectual property assertion and ownership. Some people will see it as a sad day that the Java system built by people who wanted to have it used very widely and weren’t thinking about monetizing it has now become a big fat corporate asset,” UC Berkeley law professor Robert Merges said.

Twitter pledges to limit use of patents in lawsuits
Robert Merges
quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2012
“Sun was fairly altruistic in their views about intellectual property assertion and ownership. Some people will see it as a sad day that the Java system built by people who wanted to have it used very widely and weren’t thinking about monetizing it has now become a big fat corporate asset,” UC Berkeley law professor Robert Merges said.