The paradoxical verdict rolling in from tech bloggers and pundits may well be that while Drummond has a point about the stifling chokehold of patent litigation, the evidence he cites in the post is shaky at best, and self-pitying and hypocritical at worst.
To recap the opening round: On Wednesday, Drummond posted an eight-paragraph missive, “When patents attack Android,” on a Google blog. He wrote that the success of Google’s smartphone operating system has triggered some strange and vicious happenings—like prompting rivals Microsoft and Apple “to get into bed together” to purchase smartphone patents and inspiring a “hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.”
