The thing that feels... unwholesome about this isn't that TechRadium is trying to crush a superior product through a misapplication of patent law; I don't think

The thing that feels... unwholesome about this isn't that TechRadium is trying to crush a superior product through a misapplication of patent law; I don't think they're trying to do that at all. It seems more like they invented a hammer that's custom-designed to pound nails with a square head. No one has a better hammer for that. And then Twitter made a hammer that can pound nails with any kind of head, and does it good enough most of the time. Twitter just happened to solve a more general problem than TechRadium did. It feels unwholesome because Twitter isn't really a system for sending mass emergency alerts to people. That just happens to be one application of being able to send short messages to a host of devices. And, really, Twitter wouldn't even be in competition with ISIS if it hadn't become absurdly popular for reasons that have nothing to do with emergency alerts. The feeling here of suing someone for getting so popular that an infrastructure has grown around them that lets them do what you do is, again, unwholesome.