Thomas W. Cranston wrote: > That's a great idea. I still think we should nail everything down with > patent applications at the same time - a 2 fisted approach. That way > if the challenges fail, there is something to fall back on. > > Tom
There's also something to the notion that such an action could give some legitimacy to patents. I see where you are going in trying to do something to the extreme to prove its absurdity, but you need to look at all possible outcomes. We could very well end up with situations where Microsoft won and the small timers lost (I'm pretty sure Microsoft could afford more lawyers than us). And even if the small timers won, you have a distributed network. Supposing one gets into it with the notion of teaching Microsoft a lesson, but as they go along somebody points out that he could make some big money this way. One large patent troll is not that much worse than a thousand little trolls. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
