Re: Vista Capable Lawsuit

My Response to C|NET article "REPORT: 'VISTA CAPABLE' LAWSUIT CAN MOVE FORWARD"

This type of lawsuits creates unnecessary cost that doesn't go into productive usage. Everybody knew that low-end processor with low end graphic card had hard time running Vista's new UI. It wasn't a secrete.

Trial lawyers benefit by squeezing property (money) away from a company, Microsoft.
Media benefits from the story for having a story to run and comment on.
Consumers do not benefit because they will probably get nothing or at best some useless coupons and rebate that they can't really use.

Lawsuits like this squeeze extra productivity out of companies, organized labor pools and entities that are form to gain greater efficiencies and scale of economies. Companies and Corporations are nothing more than a people setting up shops together. Those who hate corporations have skew understanding of what corporation is and how it works, rather superstitious and unscientific information that has been fed by the populism aka know-nothings. Fascists didn't like corporations either.