Comment Don't Hate the Player, Hate the game (Score 1) 542
Everyone is suing everyone else to get the cross licensing revenue. Once one company proves you can make money via lawsuit, It becomes the duty of all other companies to exploit this untapped revenue stream to increase shareholder value. A company is duty bound to use every advantage to the benefit of the shareholders. This includes lawsuits, PR campaigns, injunctions, and broken patent systems.
Personally I find the whole lawsuit, Intellectual property business distasteful, but it is the shape of things to come. If we had all this during the industrial revolution, we would be screwed.