John Doe writes:

Microsoft is in court every day forcing its will upon smaller
software publishers. One year, Microsoft poured $650 million into
our justice system. Microsoft constantly employs our government to
physically force smaller software companies into compliance.

It's the other way around. Thousands of smaller software companies
try to use the courts to compensate for their own inability to
compete, by accusing Microsoft of various misdeeds on a regular basis.

If it weren't for our intellectual property law and our government to
physically enforce that law at the point of a gun, Microsoft would
fall apart like a playing card house.

So would every other software company.

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