Comment Re:Speechless (Score 1) 85
Why not? "Nice" often translates into money on the bottom line. If people don't like you, they find reasons to take their business elsewhere. IBM learned that lesson a few decades ago.
(They didn't "pass" on the patent, though; they went defensive. They disclosed it, and in so doing made sure that no-one else could use it against them. They do that with quite a number of potential patents every year.)
