[wyattpeak]

That's a long way to stretch an analogy to make a political point. Were there armies? Soldiers equipped to kill?

Or was this a legal dispute of the sort that companies have been engaging in since the invention of companies, and individuals have been engaging in since the invention of the court?

[TimTheTinker]

Didn’t sound like a political point to me, just a reflective/thoughtful comparison.

[fhood]

Armies of lawyers I guess. Don't need soldiers if someone else is doing the enforcing.

[simonask]

I mean you are right that in absence of a judicial system and the monopoly on violence exercised by nation states and supranational treaties, a conflict such as this could have been violent.

Thankfully that world is far away.

[erk__]

I am pretty sure Samsung could mobilize a smaller army, with all the millitary gear they make.