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 Dennis Sosnoski wrote: > I think dramatic change is needed, and a victory > by Eolas looks to me to be the event most likely > to bring about such change. The amount of money > involved is pocket change for Microsoft in any case. So, you're saying we should sit back and "sacrifice" several hundred million dollars of Microsoft's money and mess up their product plans in order to teach folk that the problem of bad patents is real? Sorry, I'm just not quite that cold. Neither Microsoft nor anyone else, no matter how small or large, deserves to be "sacrificed" in such a manner. In this country (the United States) we generally work on the idea that everyone has a right to justice and equal treatment in our courts. These rights aren't properly suspended when it becomes convenient to create an "example" -- even if, as you suggest, the money wouldn't be a big loss for Microsoft. In the country where this case is being pursued, the goal is to provide justice to *all* -- independent of their means. But, it's hard to tell where people are from in mailing lists... Perhaps you're not an American? Or, maybe if you are, perhaps you just slept through that bit about the Constitution when you were in school... bob wyman 
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