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This is great news. It's nice to see two rivals joining forces on something which is not only morally wrong, but actually generally damaging to the industry as a whole. Hopefully (if successful!) this sets a precedence and sends out a message to other patent trolls.

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While I absolutely agree with you, I believe you were looking to use the word precedent.

You're right, ack, embarrassing. Unfortunately I seem unable to edit the post now.

EDIT: As an aside I think it reminded me too much of the concept of precedence in maths, so the brain-burp was probably sourced from there.

It doesn't matter at all. Don't be embarassed. Anyone who reads your original comment will know exactly what you meant.

Some of the smartest people I know frequently mis-grammar a sentence every now and then. Sometimes even frequently.

A language is a tool for conveying ideas. If a given paragraph conveys the same mental result for each reader, then it doesn't matter if any given word is wrong; the tool has done its task. I wish more people would realize this and stop condemning frivolous mistakes...

Yes, it is about time to allow some wiggle room. I am glad that grammar and spelling correction became a meme. At one point, it looked like the web was going to deteriorate into all lol speak. It was also leaking into offline writing, as well. Ebb and flow has a great end result, but the process is often painful and/or annoying.

Case in point: I'm pretty sure that using "mis-grammar" as a verb (or at all) is not the officially approved way of saying what you wanted to say, but it got the point across just fine.

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