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He means the IP of the startup itself, not of the content flowing through it. Google would have been a lot more worried about buying YouTube if some of the code had been written for one of the founders' previous employers.


Eh, you're right, although I do think the fact remains that buying YouTube is buying a lawsuit.


That may have been the point.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3930




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