Im confused; dont you think he has a right to feel cross Microsoft screwed him (if that is what happened)? The rest of what your saying is irrelevant (I agree:

Im confused; dont you think he has a right to feel cross Microsoft screwed him (if that is what happened)? The rest of what your saying is irrelevant (I agree: patents used in a broad way are evil) because it appears he has a specific complaint against a specific company :) not a general attempt to enforce his/a patent? I get the impression you haven't read the background? It does appear MS might well have done an injustice by him in '93. If that is what he is trying to right; then I guess I support him. If he is, as you suggesting, just trying to sue his patent all over the place (which I see no evidence for yet) then I am with you totally. I worry that the patent trolling leaves cases like this, where there seems the makings of a reasonable complaint, out high and dry :(