Good morning Borredo,

you hit the nail on its head: It is not against Ron and it is not against the letter, but everyone with 0,1% business and communications experience knows, that the company will not answer the questions, if they don't want to NOW.

My main question remains:

WHY THE QUESTIONAIRE NOW - AND WITH WHAT PURPOSE?

Here some excerpts from Ron's post over the last half year (bold phrases by me): 

From August 17, 2007:

"...makes the experience of posting here simply no longer worth the time and the emotional turmoil." ...

"In any event, my intended temporary reprieve from this board is now being made permanent." ...

"...I will also tell you, since lawyers rarely say "never", that there are two reasons I can foresee that I might return to the board, both of which would be due solely to very special circumstances."

From November 04, 2007:

"Also, I applaud Wolf for having the good sense to realize that hammering the BoD right now (although I agree with much if not all of what he says) is probably not wise." ...

"Don’t spoil what is going on right now by arguing among yourselves over nothing, or by complaining about the Company when nothing can be done at the present moment." ...

"...I am returning to inactive mode."

From December 18, 2007:

"We do not yet know the specific terms of the settlements, but I can assure you that nothing was "free"."

AND SINCE THEN SOMETHING SEEMS TO HAVE CHANGED:

From January 02, 2007:

"And Milestone, the J3 do not in any legal sense "validate" the patents by agreeing to settle."

From January 11, 2008:

"...surely you cannot, by your statement that, "There was a winner....by the simple fact of licensing", be suggesting that TPL/PTSC are "winners" if the J3 paid $1 each for their license agreements.  Thus, the question becomes, what would be a "win"?"

From January 12, 2008:

"Somewhat in relation to the above, I must say that it was your post a few weeks ago, shortly after the news about the J3 settlement was announced, that got me involved in taking part here on a more regular basis again.  I think it may well be time for the shareholders to again approach management with another shareholder letter, and to get a revised count of  the shares that would be in support   ---   waiting until the April 10Q may not be advisable."

This is not thought to be confrontional or offensive, Ron, I'm just trying to understand, why an obviously very intelligent and business experienced person suddenly spends his time on a public messaging board again, after he chose to step back half a year ago. 

You know, that the company has legally not failed in any communication's obligation - the "only" point is, we all feel very uncomfortable with the SP development since Dec 18th.

But as long as we don't know the whole story, we cannot judge the company (see your correct sentence from November 2007).

IF the company would have acted against the rules of law regarding their communication's obligations, THEN I would fully understand your efforts and I would support it with 1.000%. But you do know, that if the company has decided to stay quiet and NOTHING can change their strategy (IF it is a strategy...).

Once again, this is not thought to be offensive, I'm suffering with the shareprice decline as well (more than 50% loss) and I would deeply appreciate any sign of life by the company. But from a business and communications view I'm still confident, that these people (JT, NT and DP) knew and know, what they were/are doing - the last two years of the company's development have proven this IMO.

I hope, I presented my points without attacking anyone or being unpolite...if I could write my thoughts in german, they would be more balanced and shine more brilliant...lol 

Have a great sunday!

Michael