Hasn't it occurred to you that they don't want to sell youa licensebecause if their IP claims are proven false... they couldbe chargedwith fraud?? It's just more smoke and mirrors.
Fraud is a criminal charge. It would only be fraud if it could be proven
that they had *intent* to defraud in full knowledge that they had no
valid claim to the IP. Proving that they just weren't mistaken (which so
far is not illegal) would be extremely difficult.
Their *civil* liability, in the event they are proven wrong, is entirely
another matter.
Perhaps we'd best all start documenting our emotional stress and other symptoms to support the class action suit they should be receiving as soon as they are determined to be in error. Hey, if someone can collect $10M because you did not warning them that the hot coffee they just bought is hot, you ought to be able to collect for this kind of #^&%^, er, FUD.
This is making a *HUGE* assumption, i.e. that there will be some entity, with money, to collect from when the FUD settles. Of course it could help to keep the thing from rising from the grave once we drive a stake through it's heart.
-- Alma
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