Comments on: Extortion http://mrpogson.com/2010/02/23/extortion/ One man. Closing, all the windows. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/2010/02/23/extortion/comment-page-1/#comment-13947 Robert Pogson Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:35:13 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=1103#comment-13947 Yes. It's too bad the laws here exempt legal threats from the crime of extortion. It allows patent trolls and vexatious litigants to live well. Look at SCO. With no evidence and indeed evidence to the contrary, they threatened to sue and took in millions in bogus licensing fees and stock inflation. The SEC at least should have raked these guys over the coals if the civil courts will not do it. The way it has turned out SCO after ditching GNU/Linux found a way to survive another 6 years without making any profits except the extortion. Yes. It’s too bad the laws here exempt legal threats from the crime of extortion. It allows patent trolls and vexatious litigants to live well. Look at SCO. With no evidence and indeed evidence to the contrary, they threatened to sue and took in millions in bogus licensing fees and stock inflation. The SEC at least should have raked these guys over the coals if the civil courts will not do it. The way it has turned out SCO after ditching GNU/Linux found a way to survive another 6 years without making any profits except the extortion.

]]> By: twitter http://mrpogson.com/2010/02/23/extortion/comment-page-1/#comment-13919 twitter Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:36:53 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=1103#comment-13919 Extortion \Ex*tor"tion\, n. [F. extorsion.] 1. The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge. [1913 Webster] Your legal system my vary, but most normal people would agree that <a href="http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/219107" rel="nofollow">Microsoft's patent threats are blatant judicial extortion</a> in both concept and dirty details. Shame on the US legal system for not protecting US and world business interestes. Boycott Novell has more recent coverage of this ongoing scam [<a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2010/02/23/amazon-racketeering/" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2010/03/02/microsoft-role-in-attacks/" rel="nofollow">2</a>]. Enjoy, and thank you for <a href="http://mrpogson.com/2010/01/15/2009-3/" rel="nofollow">your high praise of my Microsoft Death Watch and Vista Failure Logs</a>. Extortion \Ex*tor”tion\, n. [F. extorsion.] 1. The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge. [1913 Webster]

Your legal system my vary, but most normal people would agree that Microsoft’s patent threats are blatant judicial extortion in both concept and dirty details. Shame on the US legal system for not protecting US and world business interestes. Boycott Novell has more recent coverage of this ongoing scam [1, 2]. Enjoy, and thank you for your high praise of my Microsoft Death Watch and Vista Failure Logs.

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