The mobile patent mess may get worse

It seems that most people won't care about this even if they have heard it from their geek friends or even, as you mentioned, NPR. Some people just says something along the line of "that's greedy" and continue to buy products from that evil company. They don't even bother about the grand scale political circuses.

It won't be long before the day when governments call FSF and the likes as "radical fundamentalist" or even "terrorist".