load01 08/05/2011

• Microsoft retaliates against Google's blog post with smoking gun email

  Google's Chief Legal Counsel, David Drummond, expressed the company's position on software patents and the endless litigation that surrounds them in a post on the company's official blog yesterday, and he called out Microsoft and Apple for what Google feels are anti-competitive practices when purchasing patent suites. Microsoft is having none of it, though, as the company has produced proof that it approached Google to see if it would like to join Microsoft in a bid on the Novell patents, but was turned down.

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