While Microsoft would have most to lose from any unsuccessful legal action it pursues, all software patent-owning companies – and, we reiterate, there are a number of very big ones that also use and advocate open source – would be losers the day the Supreme Court issues a decision which finds what they own to be unpatentable.
Ein Argument, das ein bißchen wie "Selbstmord aus Angst vor dem Tode" klingt.