They should be given the chance to redeem themselves or at least clear the air on what they really signed.
What if the "insider" access to Microsoft's patent arsenal were to be used to get rid of *real* patent violations in the Linux kernel and/or Samba and/or <
some other piece of important software here>? Wouldn't that be great? If instead of grabbing the pitchforks and going on witch hunts, people actually lobbied Novell to do this kind of thing (if possible), in the end everybody would win. Well, maybe not Microsoft because then they couldn't use the patent FUD.
