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As soon as that happens it will validate Newegg's strategy, and only further incentivize other companies to adopt it.

Other companies that can afford the first six patent lawsuits necessary to build up a reputation? Maybe.

Other companies that can't even afford to win once? Hardly.

It's like feeding the troll...in reverse.

Starving the troll. :) Nothing lasts forever. I think this immoral money-making tactic is on its way out.

I doubt it. There's still money to be made shaking people down for IP.

More apt perhaps would be: "curb-stomping the troll, desecrating the remains, and then mailing the whole mess in a bucket to its mother"?