@rayckeith IANAL but ...
I think the usual excuse is that failing to enforce an intangible monopoly (copyright, patent, trademark, etc) can be cited as precedent to weaken future claims. But surely they could issue an irrevocable license for a narrow set of cases like pico-mac-nano, granting necessary copyright and patent usage permissions. It would probably even be cheaper than suing them all.
I think the usual excuse is that failing to enforce an intangible monopoly (copyright, patent, trademark, etc) can be cited as precedent to weaken future claims. But surely they could issue an irrevocable license for a narrow set of cases like pico-mac-nano, granting necessary copyright and patent usage permissions. It would probably even be cheaper than suing them all.
They could, but they don't. They're just being dicks.
