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What impact, if any, does this have on the companies, such as Microsoft, that previously settled and agreed to pay the licensing fees? Can they ride the coattails of this success?


That's what I was thinking too. It'd be really easy for them to terminate their agreements with the trolls and start using the technology free again. My guess is that at least some of them will take this course of action.




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