The following video shows the faces and brings together the voices of those whom we describe as "patent trolls". Novell was recently a victim of one (if not two).
Some days ago, an update was published about the patent dispute between Nokia and Qualcomm.
Nokia told a Dutch court on Friday it is not infringing patents of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm because the cell phone maker uses chips of Texas Instruments, which already pays for Qualcomm patents.
Remember that even 15 years ago (more or less, maybe 16 years ago) Canonical appointed a a 'former' Microsoft manager (Spencer) to lead Ubuntu on the desktop