I welcome correction if anyone knows of incidences to the contrary - Google has hitherto used its patents exclusively in a defensive manner ; i e, to protect their use of a technology they themselves have developed. One would hope that if this technology does, in fact, become standard, that Google would open-source it. In any event, the above is yeat another piece of evidence that the whole patent situation is in desperate need of a thorough overhaul....
Henri
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