Oh yes, Google is just wonderfully fair and impressive and just a dandy company with patents, so much better than the other big tech companies. I mean, they said things like this:
"It’s time to take action against patent trolls and patent privateering.”
http://www.webpronews.com/google-declares-time-to-take-action-against-patent-trolls-2013-04
What a bunch of great guys and gals! But wait, oh, what's this?
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/06/apple-google-motorola-patent-troll/
It seems that just a few months after Google makes these lofty claims about patent trolling Google becomes the first ever major convicted patent troll. Yes, that's right... Not Apple, not Microsoft, Google is the first ever major corporate convicted patent troll.
I get that you may not have heard about it, since it gets almost no media attention - honestly, when Google is performing hostile takeovers, treating privacy like it was toilet paper, and patent trolling, who ever hears about it? It's a credit to Google's *excellent* PR that they do the same crap as other companies but manage to convince gullible consumers that they are somehow the good guy, above such low methods as patent trolling. Sadly, it's not true.
This is a bit like the case of everyone ragging on Apple for using cheap Chinese sweatshop labour acting all morally outraged about it... When the company they support makes their products in the Chinese sweatshop labour factory next door to Apple's.
I don't have a problem with Google getting RIM's patents. I do have a slight problem with people believing they'll somehow handle them better. Every major tech company owns hundreds, probably thousands of patents which go unenforced as they are infringed on a daily basis, and it's usually a business decision to not pursue patent infringement. When it makes sense from a business standpoint to stick it to a competitor, and they will or they won't depending on whether they think they'll win or whether it's worth the money to litigate. Google is evidently willing to play the patent game, whether you are aware of it or not.
Also, another tidbit...
http://www.androidauthority.com/google-apple-spend-patents-120824/
Headline - "Google and Apple spend more on patents than on R&D." What a wonderful example set by the two most valuable tech companies on the planet.