and besides, the onus of citation should be on you with your crazy broad assumption that Fred has placed 'immense pressure' on startups to generate patents.
Will you please stop? The fact that you're having to hop all over this thread defending yourself should make you reconsider what you said, not start calling third parties liars for contradicting you.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/yahoo-crosses-the-line.html#...
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/yahoo-crosses-the-line.html#...
more importantly, where is there even a single citation of Fred placing immense pressure on even a single startup to generate a patent?
You should retract your comment, since you made it all up.
Claiming someone is guilty by association or virtue of their profession is bad form.
