Well, we can always agree to disagree, especially since you're good friends with Baer, and quite understandably want to defend him. Still, I just can't quite bring myself to the "Baer says it, so it must be true" school of thought. Likewise, I'd be skeptical of buying everything I saw in his notes. Again, I must point out that Baer has a long-standing and very real motive for defending his patents and making all sorts of sweeping generalizations about his inventions--it translates into cold, hard, cash. No doubt, this is a man who knows how to present the right sort of evidence to the courts, whereas Nolan and the rest of the "hacker" types had "better" things to do with their time and ended up taking a royal screwing for it.

At any rate, I definitely don't begrudge Baer for being angry about the Odyssey debacle and getting as much money as he could convince courts to award him, but I'm not going to lionize him or accept anything without a grain of salt. Perhaps if he hadn't grubbed so hard for coin, I might have more respect for him, but it honestly just seems a bit off for a well-paid engineer to carry on so, even after all these years.