At what point do you forego patents for the sake of usability. Twitpic has been around for so long and they have tons of media hosted, all of those Tweets are n

At what point do you forego patents for the sake of usability. Twitpic has been around for so long and they have tons of media hosted, all of those Tweets are now essentially broken. Twitter should instead foster a relationship with Twitpic. Twitpic is DEPENDENT on Twitter to work, it's not taking users from Twitter at all (other than hosting media). Truly sad to see.