Joel, BSW and Corpbuyer
I believe JimCharts was referring to the similarities in there posting habits, not positions. Joel and BSW showed up on the boards to lobby for their position on the 2004 proxy vote. They posted repeatedly, harping on their positions over and over and over and over. I was among those who spent a great number of posts arguing with them. BSW was clearly a shill, clever, but intellectual dishonest, who I fully expected to disappear once the vote was taken. Joel has had an interest in IDCC for a while and while we disagreed I did not get the sense that he was here for a specific purpose. However his dropping out of sight after the proxies were counted has me wondering about his sincerity. However I'm more interested in the content of one's writings rather than analyzing who has an agenda, so it's not a big deal to me.
Corpbuyer posted in the same "must reply to everything" manner during the 2005 proxy battle, stating his position over and over. Now that it's over and he's been successful, and at the request of many, he has refrained from beating that dead horse recently. I, for one, thank him for that.
IMO, that's what he meant.