http://gizmodo.com/5491521/why-google-should-buy-palm?skyline=true&s=i

interesting part I think.

"Even if Google has no indemnification obligations to HTC, the Apple/HTC patent war has to be more about Android and Google than anything else. Apple doesn't want a cross-patent agreement with HTC because HTC only has a relative handful of patents. Apple has over $30 billion in the bank so they can't possibly want money from HTC. So what could motivate Apple to want to sue HTC"