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Workaccount2 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

Qualcomm is and will remain patent holding company. They have a crazy number patents for all manner of wireless communication, and they treat them like their golden geese.

RobotToaster 8 months ago [–]

So they're basically going to become a patent troll, like IBM?

zoobab 8 months ago | [–]

They are a patent troll for a long time.

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