I don't mince words when my conviction is strong and I'm pretty good at reading between the lines. It's refreshing to see you pickup on this. As far as your question on my interpretation of EDIG"s infringement strategies, trillium did a great job explaining where we're headed as EDIG executes their well thought out and planned model.

quote from trilium's post on this:

"There is a whole second tier of infringers that become targets once the easy targets have been resolved. I believe this is what he is referring to as second tier. The remainder of the hand held devices utilizing our operating system become targets, not just the ones that have removable flash."

in a nutshell, EDIG is only suiing infringers for the "first" patent (445?), they're not licensing the "Whole" portfolio for these early settlement fees (unliike PTSC) Once this first tier has played out, they'll have sufficent capital and a strong balance sheet to go after the "Big fish" or patent(s) pertaining to the highly coveted "micro-OS" that makes up the majority of EDIG's attractive intellectual property base. Given trillium's analogy, can you imagine going after the mighty Apple for stealing our P.I.P.? Maybe doni can chime in as to more details on this and or anyone verifing this with EDIG themselves? I will talk in the near future with them if I don't see anyone else respond to verify. I thank others for acknowleding (thumbs up!) my contributions and positive comments as well. mguru