BountyQuest (Score 1)

What a surprise that Greg Aharonian, who is on record as stating that he wants BountyQuest to fail because it is competitive with his private search business, once again pulls out his only tool, the flamethrower. Ask any BountyQuest winner (e.g., a $25000 one last week) how they like the system. The Intouch case started long before BountyQuest launched, and the Amazon lawyers have said they have had good prior art all along. The decision to settle has to be about pure economics: litigation costs $3000 per day, and a cheap license is a much easier way to go. We'll see what happens with BountyQuest, but it is still around, unlike a lot of the dot-coms.