[sorbus]

Entirely relevant: It's way easier to threaten an opponent with an extremely long legal war that would be quite damaging to them (and then come up with a cross-licensing deal) than it is to engage in a long legal war to invalidate patents.

Sure, it's not the best thing to do, but it's better for all concerned.

[rbanffy]

I'd cut Microsoft's access to Google. Let them try to function with only Bing results ;-)