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geebee on July 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer

True, and I suppose there's no reason to assume patent trolls will behave rationally as a group.

rbarooah on July 13, 2011 [–]

Right - there's probably nothing to stop a 'tragedy of the commons' occurring, and money is fungible so they can just do something else with it when the cash cow dies.

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