最新消息：科技博客网站Pando Daily的MG•西格勒提醒说，去年8月，在谷歌宣布收购摩托罗拉之前，谷歌首席法律顾问大卫•德鲁蒙德曾经在博客上发布了一篇文章。他在一篇题为《安卓面临专利攻击》（When patents attack Android）的文章中表现得立场坚定，义正词严，坚决反对针对单个产品收取版税。他写道：

    一款智能手机可能会涉及多达25万项（大部分很值得怀疑的）专利。而我们的竞争对手却希望对这些令人半信半疑的专利再征收一笔“税”。那样的话，对消费者而言，安卓设备的价格会进一步上涨；他们希望籍此增加手机厂商销售安卓设备的难度。他们企图通过法律诉讼展开竞争，而不是通过开发新功能、新设备来提升自身的竞争力。

    真是发人深省啊。

    译者：大海

    UPDATE: Pando Daily's MG Siegler reminds us what David Drummond, Google's chief legal counsel, wrote last August, before the Motorola acquisition plan was announced. In a blog post entitled "When patents attack Android," he took a firm, principled stance against per-unit royalty fees:

    A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and our competitors want to impose a "tax" for these dubious patents that makes Android devices more expensive for consumers. They want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation.

    Hmmm.