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> In practice I don't see too many companies going full on litigious towards small players or end users

We should introduce you to Oracle. This is exactly what they do. They audit their own customers in a very hostile way.

Never underestimate a company in decline, as they grasp for ways to increase revenues and profits for shareholders (or founders)

As long as ReactOS doesn’t challenge their enterprise revenue, they should be fine.

You just don't read about it if small players are involved. They don't have the media attention and the money, they just vanish.

Nothing prevents patent trolls from becoming copyright trolls overnight: acquire companies, sue everyone.