Most certainly Sun has involved in the past action of stating that software patent laws are a bad idea with bad effects. But the court does not make the laws, and is not in the position to question them. Whether or not Sun or anybody else considers those laws a bad idea (or has considered them as such in the past), they are a given for the sake of the court.

If anything, this case sends a strong reinforcement to law makers: "See why those laws are a bad idea? We told you, but you chose not to listen. As long as you keep this legislation in place, we are, like anybody else, not just subjected, but also entitled to its consequences."

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