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Re: mplayer, the time has come



On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:21:01AM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote:
> On Friday 25 February 2005 02:10 am, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > I do. That barely scratched their "get-out-of-court-free" cash fund,
> > which they stoked up precisely so they can effectively ignore such
> > judgements; it numbers in the tens of billions in liquid capital. It
> > certainly didn't hurt their position any.
> 
> I don't like Microsoft any more than you do, but this just pointless MS 
> bashing.

What, to point out that the courts did not impose a significant
penalty on them? That's a comment on the courts, not MS. Ordinarily
I'd say that I couldn't understand how you managed to read it to mean
precisely the opposite of what it did, but that's what law school is
for...

> > RIAA, for one. It's often used as a form of lawyer terrorism; they
> > don't want money, they want to scare people.
> 
> Most importantly, this is not a patent case.

Irrelevant; your implied question was "Why would a large corporation
go after an individual for significant damages?", and that's the reason.

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