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September 1, 2010

Patent troll or not, Paul Allen finds a friend in Steve Wozniak

Is there some kind of secret brotherhood of lesser-known Microsoft and Apple founders? Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder better known as Woz, is voicing some surprisingly strong support for Paul Allen and the Microsoft co-founder’s patent litigation against Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech giants. Asked about the lawsuit during a video interview with Bloomberg News, Wozniak says he’s "not at all against the idea of patent trolls," and he believes Allen’s suit represents the fact that inventors have rights under the U.S. patent system.

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