In Its Latest Crusade, Google Takes on Patents

And sadly, that action involves instead accepting the rent-seeking, protection-racketeering business as usual.

I was hoping that Google had decided to put its weight behind some effort to invalidate software patents in general. Something like this would certainly be in Google's interest but I suspect they chickened out when they understood the forces arrayed against them.

Edit: I'm happy to notice their blog post still pushes for patent reform. But this is them protecting themselves in the mean-time.