Vendors: Stop threatening us

Interesting opinion/article: Vendors: Stop threatening us. Threat's aren't the best sales pitch - here's a quote: "We can obtain plenary indulgence, the old concept of immunity from intellectual property damnation, by purchasing operating systems from Microsoft, Sun, HP, Novell, and/or Red Hat, or so the stories go. Ptui, I say. If you've got patents, play that card, and play it now. We're sick, mighty sick, of listening to it. Tell us, chapter and verse, what you think is the problem. Do it now. Stop the threats - go in to action. We're the customers, remember? Stop harassing us with vague threats."