[kjuhygtfrde]

Do you want to fight it?

Do your customers, shareholders, managers, investors want you to fight it?

Or would you agree to buy MSFT's product if it included a promise not to sue you?

[micheljansen]

I am not saying it does not make sense for Microsoft to pursue a patent like this; I am saying that the fact that it does illustrates how out-of-touch the patent system has become.

Patents were meant to protect Patents have by themselves become a source of revenue, used by big corporations to sit on their lazy ass. They no longer hold any value for the small inventors they were meant to protect in the first place.