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What's funny is to see someone in their first paragraph nit-pick the use of a single word ("so") from the article, and then in their second paragraph go on to grossly misuse a phrase ("patent troll").

It is not patent trolling to ask for licensing for patents that you developed and that cover technology that you use. It is in fact how patents were designed and meant to be used.

Touché, you're right. MS is amicably working out license deals, very unlike a patent troll.

It would be foolish to ignore potential income. Remember they have people to pay, they're not one being with one attitude of patent trolling.

There is a big trend of people from Microsoft starting sentences with 'So'. You can see it on a lot of interviews on Channel9.

You make a good point. The guy "estimates" $15 per license and then uses this estimate to draw conclusions, without providing any basis for his estimate. It seems to amount to nothing more than speculation.