Why are you even insulting all of the readers by publishing the statement from i4i's CEO? The only thing mroe ridiculous than this whole story unfolding is what he had to say about it. Allow me to translate what he is saying, to make sure that the root of it is in plain text.
"The injunction is not saying there is no more Word for the world," Owen said. "That is not our intention and that would not be a sensible remedy."
Translation: all Microsoft has to do is pay us a very large sum of money, more than our whole company is worth, and we will be happy to let them continue selling Word, until that money dries up. Then, we will sue them again, claiming that they have not removed the aspects of Word we sued over the first time. Let's face it. Taht retirement to an island in the Carribean isn't cheap. We have to get our money SOMEHOW.
"It's obviously a material verdict by US patent verdict (standards), but we think it is fair,"
Translation: The judge ruled in our favor, and we think that's fair. Ignore the idiot whose mouth is moving, but only spewing forth nonsense and outright stupid comments like this one.
What kind of person would stand up there and say "Well, the judge ruled in our favor, but we don't find the verdict fair. We actually think our lawsuit was wrong, and that the judge should have ruled against us. This was all just a statement against how poor the US justice system is."? Show me a single lawsuit in any point of history where that happened.
I said it yesterday, when the story was published, and I will say it again. There is one factor driving this lawsuit; money. If i4i didn't believe that they could gain a substancial cash injection here, they wouldn't bother with the alwsuit. Even if it were absolutely 100% true that Microsoft was infringing on i4i's patent, they would not sue, unless they stood to gain a large amount of money, which they do. This is also the reason taht, even if products like OpenOffice do infringe upon this patent as well, they will not bring suit against them. Even Google, with its Google Docs, could very easily be in the wrong also, but will likely not be sued either. Anyone who thinks that this lawsuit is about right and wrong, and not about money, is sorely mistaken, and only fooling themselves. Anyone who buys into what i4i's CEO said above, is just as sorely mistaken. It's as simple as that, like it or not.
--Master Joe
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