Paul Crowley

Yeah. It's a brilliant piece of petard-hoisting, but everybody who understands technology and doesn't have a financial interest in Microsoft's success already knows that they're a bunch of lying, thieving weasels. It's something that has been documented time after time. (I give people who work for Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're self-deluding, rather than evil.)

I actually think that Microsoft's implicit testimony as to the novelty of the patent would be given quite a bit of credibility by the Patent Office. That's one of the problems with patents...