This is probably the end of discussion...

I'll take that as "I intend to shout at you and everyone else here".

Well, you can certainly take it any way you please, Martin, that's your lookout, not mine. My "shouting at you" is entirely in your head, a complete figment of your own imagination, and I accept no responsibility whatsoever for it.

I don't recall saying that your words weren't "important", but I did suggest that you were being off-topic, and you seemed to agree. I don't recall insisting that my words were "important", either, but as someone who's assisted in the writing of patents and developing strategy around patent portfolios on a professional basis, I actually have an interest in the substance of this story, as opposed to using it as a hobbyhorse for venting my various political views on tangential or unrelated issues.

Again: if you want to discuss actual patent reform in concrete and informed terms, fine. If you want to discuss this story, fine.

However, if you just saw the words "Microsoft" and "patent" and had some sort of Pavlovian impulse to just drop in and tell us all how nice it would be the world were an entirely different place than the place it is, or inform us as to Florian's choices of software, or call people names, or insist that patents are a disease, or let us know what the appropriate response to Nazis demanding whether you have Jewish patients in your hospital might be, that seems unreasonable to me.