The only thing "I got" is that your response to the question is one I find ridiculous & impossible. In that, yes, I've "got it". You have unequivocally stated that all voip service providers in the world have stolen the technology they use from vplm. I find that utterly ridiculous & impossible on numerous levels. Voip services, including the ability to rout calls & bill customers, has I believe been around for a long time, certainly longer than vplm's patents. There is no way, just for starters, that these companies could have stolen something that didn't even exist yet (vplm patents). That seems obvious. Also, there are many many voip services providers & to postulate that every one of them decided to get into the biz by stealing the tech from vplm is also ridiculous to believe to be true. Yet you do, and you can't back away from that, cuz that's exactly how I couched my initial question. To believe that every voip company there is, ripped iff individually or in a concerted effort, vplm technology, is as nonsensical as it is to believe that not a single voip company has ever chosen to license or buy vplm patents, if those patents were indeed absolute necessary and as valuable as touted. You know...my oft used analogy... whereby it's nonsense to leave a huge mountain of gold lying in the middle of the street. It just makes no sense and it never will. Same as long ago when many tried to say that the MS (apparent) attempt to get an LI patent, somehow proved (lol) the importance & need for the LI patent. It didnt prove anything. I spelled out a far more plausible explanation for their "bid". None listened because maybe they run w/blinders on.. Simple common sense dictates that even if some companies believed they could get away with not buying or paying usage fees, (if they believed in the essential & foundational need for the patents), certainly not all of them would. Nor would all of them risk the accumulating & possibly amplified fines they would INEVITABLY have to cough up. That too, is obvious because even if vplm is not able to see it through themselves, eventually some company, some voip company, would snatched it up & would be in a financially better position to go after the rest of the infringers. They simply could not ALL be that dumb. Assuming that is true, that then means they have looked at it (the need for the patents) long, hard and deep and have determined the vplm patent suite is not needed. I find this makes at least as much sense as the belief the patents are all that and that despite yrs & yrs of touts & promises, yet nothing panned out. Year after year after year, a nickel stock. Mired in more litigation, more dilution, more lack of recognition and respect in the industry and no serious positive coverage in the media, ever. Sorry, but those are exactly what I call a lack of what earmarks would be expected for a company that really has something needed & absolutely required by the whole world and worth many billions. Could I be wrong? Ok, yes, and vplm will turn out to be the biggest upset in stock and patent history. You have a large vested interest in seeing it happen and I believe that skews your judgment.
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Oh, and I listened to Emil's paid pump (if that's what it was..) and he didn't sound like a raving madman to me. He sounded like he had his shit together and made sense, in spite of my above sentiments.
