push: I haven't "been burned by the selling of.shares" but I also don't have to shut off any critical thought because I own shares in NeoMedia.
You have not a shred of support for "Microsoft was still using what they had patented." If that were true, you would have to wonder why there were no fees for previous infringement and why there are no fees for any future use.
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” Henry Wheeler Shaw