" In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his “Draft Report” on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprietary approach. In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving patents than they did on research and development of new products.64 "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution