[four]

I just love this. Lots of dick-swinging and heart-bleeding and whining and greed. There is no right side in this. Everyone just wants their way.

The web is not some inalienable right handed down from God for the betterment of humanity. It's a clever idea that lots of people find handy. Kleenex and eyeglasses are clever, too. I don't see a movement to free tissue paper.

Why is anyone shocked by the prospect that it may come at a cost, directly or indirectly?

Life's too short, and too beautifully wonderous, to waste fretting about who's greed is good and who's is bad or unfair. Drama, drama.

[artursapek]

I'm mostly with you but can't you empathize more with the companies he's suing, who have developed the seed of an idea to an extraordinary level, than with him and his small shitty company, who just patented an abstraction and never did much with it?

[Symmetry]

The web is not some inalienable right handed down from God for the betterment of humanity. Yes, that's why I feel sad when the people who meaningfully brought us the web get sued by people who didn't.

[antihero]

Why should I buy into the sad delusion that everything has a pricetag? Ideas are free until someone wants to make a buck off of them.