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You are dead wrong. Yes, people are sued for B.S. reasons all the time. The correct long term response is not to seek refuge under the wing of another, more subtle bully. It is to remove the ability for people to sue for B.S. reasons.

Not easy for an individual to accomplish, granted.

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Yes, patent reform is needed. I do what I can to support that effort. In the meantime I have a business to run and I need to work within the existing legal framework to keep it protected. Access to patents for defensive purposes / patent exchanges are one way to do that.

I do not see how this, in itself, is bullying on Microsoft's part at all. The Apache 2.0 license has a similar mutually assured destruction proviso w.r.t. patent suits. It's one of the reasons that the Free Software Foundation recommends using that license. Is that bullying / FUD?

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