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Plus, like I said before, WWKD, they could fight to say that the patent is invalid (see the stuff with Gibson and Activision), and that could go on for years. Part of me believes that if MS really thought they had a case, the public backlash (although since when have they ever given a fuck what anyone else thinks of them) to such a thing (thinking of the recent Gibson case) may be too much of a risk.
Also, way could also mean programming language. Maybe just so much as a different coding to make it work would be enough to bypass any legal issues (to everyone's defense, NO one has even talked about that as being a possibility). Although that may be too much of a stretch, it's worth considering.
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