[viraptor]

I'd really like the exact opposite. The sooner every company supporting patents is hit with lawsuits and the sooner we get to the situation where noone can publish any code safely, the more chances there are for patents to be rejected. I hope that someone will emerge one day with a collection of patents for base Windows, Unix and Mac functionality, successfully enforce it and refuse to license. One can dream...

[protomyth]

Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, etc all have the money to pay. The people without money will be barred from the market.

[viraptor]

Well - they don't have unlimited resources. It might be just some loose change the first time. Losing the lawsuit a couple of times wouldn't actually go unnoticed. Especially if they would appeal all of them two times.

[awa]

Well they earn a lot of money from licensing their own patents and sometimes use them to sue (e.g. Apple vs HTC) others