"Consider this. About the only way the Government can intervene and preserve Microsoft is to weaken patents, especially software patents."
There's another way the government can intervene and preserve the status quo - it could rule the Microsoft did not infringe on the patent. Then Microsoft gets to continue doing its thing and Sony/Phillips are out a few hundred million which they'll proceed to write-off...
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"Consider this. About the only way the Government can intervene and preserve Microsoft is to weaken patents, especially software patents." There's another way the government can intervene and preserve the status quo - it could rule the Microsoft did not infringe on the patent. Then Microsoft gets to continue doing its thing and Sony/Phillips are out a few hundred million which they'll proceed to write-off...