By your own admission & definition... of everything that is said here...should I take your points of fact to be: conjecture, frustration, or spinning? I guess you would say yours doesn't count. Ok.. in any event, does "real, verifiable, intellectual property" mean it has intrinsic, real, verifiable value, on any certain level? While you consider your answer to that, please also offer your opinion on why MS tried, starting 2 yrs after vplm, to win approval for essentially the same LI patent & since the obvious (but not the only) answer is because they need it for Skype, etc, then why they have not put their money down to buy it, in the time since vplm LI approval. I think both deserve answers.
And while we're at it, why, since you are discussing Chang, would a voip company, who has repeatedly appointed itself as a leading edge in voip, totally abandon their entire voip business infrastructure, upon which Chang's plan was, quite reasonably, to, (using the acquired technology) build a voip Goliath, a monster teleco? After all, if you are already a leading edge teleco & then you get the undeniable(?) foundational patentrd control of the future of telecommunications, then what the heck? Was all that voip stuff (points phones, long distance, soft switches, magic jacks, etc etc) for real, or not? If for real, well, Chang was the head of it, no?, so whaa happened? If not real, he still was the top guy & is still here now, while you said the questionable past has been cast off...??
Isn't it, for most intents & purposes, still essentially digifonica anyway?...and if so, how is that throwing off the past? There's still Chang, Sawyer, Tucker, Smart & Biggar, etc.
