I didn't bother to read it all, but all that stuff makes me feel apathy. I very much believe, that VMWare did something wrong. Maybe even illegal. I believe the

I didn't bother to read it all, but all that stuff makes me feel apathy. I very much believe, that VMWare did something wrong. Maybe even illegal. I believe they deserve to be punished for that. But what I see here doesn't look like punishment at all. What does that solve? Whom does it help? For VMWare it's just professional risk, they have their lawyers, they know their business. So even if it ends up extremely bad for them (which I doubt) it will be just "nasty day at work" and they'll recover somehow. And sure as hell it won't be tragic for EMC (if they notice it at all). The "victim" won't be rewarded as well, because "victims" are ordinary Linux-kernel contributors scattered over the world. So what the whole thing really is: gathering money to feed some lawyers, who might not look as bad as VMWare when you read all that story, but in fact are far less useful for society than even VMWare, who is supposed to be the evil guy here. It just makes me think how pointless all that stuff is. It's depressing.