[vidarh]

The uncertainty is enough for them to "pull the plug" for all practical purposes simply by dragging people into court. If SCO were able to keep IBM and Novell fighting them in court for 7 years on the basis of ridiculous unfounded claims, then how long do you think a well funded company like Microsoft can keep third parties spending money defending themselves for?

[postfuturist]

MSFT could drag any software company with a piece of software of significant complexity into court over patent infringement however spurious those claims may be. So nobody should ever write software, right?