I feel like we need more details to start passing judgement. For all we know VSL is trying to claim that their patent gives them a monopoly over an entire probl

I feel like we need more details to start passing judgement. For all we know VSL is trying to claim that their patent gives them a monopoly over an entire problem domain rather than just a specific implementation. If Google had decided in the middle of talks that they would just roll their own solution, it makes sense to tell their engineers not to touch the details of VSL's system, lest it influence their own implementation/solution.