> As someone who lived through the earlier era, it's hard not to see this as a potentially fatal weakness: an ability to bring down large chunks of the ecosyste

> As someone who lived through the earlier era, it's hard not to see this as a potentially fatal weakness: an ability to bring down large chunks of the ecosystem with a single determined actor invoking legal mayhem. I assume you're talking about MSFTs FUD proxy war against Linux by way of frivolous SCO lawsuits against everyone they could think to file against?