Declining to sue in this case, when I have publicly said what I am going to do, shows other companies that Microsoft is ignoring the threat to closed source sof

Declining to sue in this case, when I have publicly said what I am going to do, shows other companies that Microsoft is ignoring the threat to closed source software that this poses. So while it would not be a legal precedent, it would be a social one that would be fought against by other companies.