Barracuda countersues Trend Micro

> To go on with your 'guns' example, just have a look at what happened every time countries
have given weapons to the 'good' side. Does the word 'Talibans' ring a bell for example?


Well I know what happens when countries take them away from their people.. Nazi holocaust and
Khmer Rouge killing fields come to mind.

The Taliban are kittens compared to the folks that caused millions that died at the hands of
the Nazis and the hundreds of millions that died as a result of old-line communist social
policies. Those governments were all very careful about removing the ability for their victims
to defend themselves long before they became victims. 

If you use sarcasm on the internet, does it make a sound?  I know, you can't see it unless I
put the faux tags around it.  At least you grabbed half of the analogy, even if you didn't
take the reductio ad absurdum with it.  Keep pulling, and don't assume stupidity.

The fact of the matter is that patent commons and like agreements function to protect the
larger "us and ours".  What Barracuda is doing, likewise -- for the moment.  Did I say that
guns pointed at you were good?  No.  But I think my statement was as short-sighted in that
respect as the idea of not pursuing broad patents because of who holds them.  Barracuda can
have their guns, bought and paid for, and as long as we benefit, fine.  But your call for "law
and justice" ignores the fact that the trolls have law on their side, and call shutting down
our projects justice.  For that matter, as you bring it up, the Talibuni have law on their
side -- their law.  You will need a better operational definition of "justice".  (Also, I
think that may be the new "ad hitlerium" defense you're using.)  I will not argue foreign
policy, nor the mistakes of reactionary implementations of Shari`a, here.  See, however, the
point that a) the instruments of justice may be ugly when the laws are ugly, and b) that makes
them no less ugly, nor less potentially harmful.  There are no true "instruments of justice",
only instruments.

While we're on the political analogies, look up MADD and nuclear disarmament.  No easy way
out.