Patent holder attempts to put x-plane out of business
x-plane.com
x-plane.com
They're rent seekers, not enemy combatants.
His "fight to the death" spirit is admirable, but he is turning a simple robbery into mortal combat. I so very much hope he wins big.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
...rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur...
Many current studies of rent-seeking focus on efforts to capture various monopoly privileges stemming from government regulation of free competition.
In practice, the difference comes to this: Its the government's clubs that finally smash your business, not the troll's.