Seagate: If Flash Drives Get Too Cheap, We'll Use Patents To Make Them Expensive

Ah, the evils of software patents, even applied to hardware products.

I suspect, however, that the genie's out of the bottle, thankfully. They might be able to make things slightly more expensive, but lawsuits like that can take years. Moore's law is on the side of the SSD vendors, since it, unlike patent law, need not be adjudicated to apply.

That article was published a year an a half ago and refers to declarations of a guy who's no longer the CEO of Seagate. I'm sure the "news" in news.ycombinator.com is not to be taken literally but come on!