[MVLUG] forwarded message from Joe Pfeiffer

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Shaun Hadfield writes:
>
>In Shaun's perfect world of fairness, any company that waits twelve  
>years to defend their patent, and the concepts of that patent are now  
>considered "common practice," has forfeited the right to complain  
>about it.  Because twelve years is about how long multiple desktops  
>has been around and used.  Probably longer.

IANAL, but as I understand it, that can be part of a defense against a
suit like this.

>I find this as absurd as the case against Research in Motion, or  
>Unisys's campaign against the GIF image format.  But hey, that's  
>capitalism at work.

But for different reasons -- the troll that went after RIM did it in a
timely manner (and I don't remember exactly what the infringement
was).  The UNISYS extortion attempt was exactly like this.