Your question sounds all convoluted to me. As usual, it tries to take an excellent idea I had and twist it into something else, attempting to make yourself sound smarter.
1st of all, the "demand" element was just purposely adding a little hyperbole to the post. It was rhetorical. But the base idea was a very good one. It was almost 10 yrs ago when I posted it. At the time, I recall many saying that vplm would not be able to afford prolonged pushback from the bigs. And there were arguments as to whether plan A, sell company, or plan B, start suing, or other plans, were the best route. They didn't seem to be getting anywhere. I knew they had named 60 or so alleged infringers and I did some of my own checking and found there were many more than 60 voip service providers out there and the company was saying that all voip service providers were automatically infringers. So with all that in mind, my suggestion was to begin a lawsuit against a small infringer, one that didn't have zillions of dollars to give and that would 1) make it easier, cheaper and quicker to win in court and 2) that would establish that vplm was for real in the infringement suit pursuit and last but not least, it would get the snowball rolling. Once a lower size case was won, that would open Pandora's box and that would make subsequent suits far easier to get thru and win, like dominoes.
There is no way that's not a good plan as far as I can see. And on the other hand, 10 yrs later, not a damn nickel has been won and contrary to the fairy tale being told that everything has gone like roses for vplm since, thats not what I heard many many longs saying as they finally bailed or have been bitching hollering and complaining about esp in the past year. There were many complaints by those who used to totally trust vplm.
So you can try to turn that idea I had 10 yrs ago into sounding like it was foolish but I'd like to hear a telephony patent lawyer state same for back then.
And the stupid, ignorant, highly disingenuous joke of a claim that vplm is in its best position ever is 100% insult to shareholder support and intelligence. The damn truth of the matter is that way back when......almost 20 yrs ago, when the Digi and vplm peeps were friends and beginning to collaborate on voip ideas and technologies, and vplm was close to .40 per share and they were developing a voip service providing platform and business, THEN AND ONLY THEN, WERE THEY TRULY IN THE BEST POSITION EVER AND IF THEY HAD STUCK TO THEIR PLAN AND PROMISE, TODAY THEY PROBABLY WOULD BE IN THE MIDST OF BEING BROKE UP LIKE BELL TELEPHONE WAS, FOR BEING A WORLDWIDE MONOPOLY AND A REAL TRUE LEADER IN COMMUNICATIONS.
All my commentary is to be considered as my personal opinions, to which I am entitled. And there is no proof of said opinions unless I offer it in the comments.
