IV is an evil corporation. It does not feel pain. It cannot be reasoned with. Nathan Myhrvold struck it rich with Microsoft, then he beat cancer and now he's repaying us for all this luck by becoming the biggest patent troll the world has ever seen. Nathan is a shitstain.
Do you have any idea how morally bankrupt Microsoft was in the 90s? These guys got their training at Microsoft. The irony is the chief has completely changed, while the underlings continue on, perhaps trying to move out of his shadow.
Edit: Perhaps a little context is in order for the younger crowd here, since the MS today is very different from the MS of the 90s. First is "embrace, extend, extinguish", which was used to great effect with Internet Explorer and with Java. Their FUD campaign against Linux was legendary. They played nasty tricks during acquisitions. The list goes on[1].
1. http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_4.html (To be fair, this person obviously has an axe to grind, so read with a bit of skepticism, but I worked at both competitors and partners of MS during that time, at neither position was very comfortable.)
