... that this is all "business as usual, who gives a fuck", literally the rest of the *entire world* doesn't see it the same way.

This whole sequence of events has court cases going on all over the world involving several tech giants, CNBC is covering it all day, Mark Cuban is tweeting about, massively influential judges are stepping down into lower circuits specifically to take its cases (and dismissing them), tech sites liveblogging court decisions, Steve Jobs "going thermonuclear" and now it's gone far enough that we're seeing Google throwing out their own offensive salvos. So no, this isn't on the level of some vacuum patents, no matter how much you'd love for it to be.

But it must really burn your soul to have to cover something so "trivial" for your own job, no?