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Originally Posted by drjones
The brilliant part about it is, that Microsoft can keep their hands "clean" so to speak. MS doesnt go after these companies themselves because of the mutually assured destruction scenario. Other companies would be able to leverage their patents against MS, if MS leveraged their patents against them. But with the shell of a company, Acacia, acting on their behalf, theres no way for the other companies to damage MS's patent portfolio, or leverage their patents against them.
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I don't know about brilliant, Ballmer "predicted" the lawsuit 2 days before it was public and Acacia added two scumbag executives from Microsoft to their company roster. That doesn't strike me as being overly discrete, but probably discrete enough for wall street though.