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... and the alternative was letting Google buy them up.
The mobile business right now is crazy with patent claims and counter-claims. There are almost certainly some actual infringements, but there are also almost certainly some patents that should never have been issued. The suits will be bumping around the courts until smartphones have been replaced with cerebral implants.
What the source calls “cheap defensive insurance,” I call mutually assured destruction. All the players want to amass enough patents that the suits all balance out, resulting in some sort of negotiated settlement.
“reported to be infringing Novell Patents”
I thought Chrome did too?
Didn’t EMC start as a company claiming key patents, specifically Unix patent claims? This sounds to me like these four are corralling the patents necessary for them to do business and agreeing that each may freely use those patents. That would negate death by a thousand cuts from every sue-happy interloper around, like EMC used to be.