IanKelley - 7:54 am on Nov 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

Point well made, aside from:

You would say no (or at least that's how I take your comments).

I think the cruise control analogy becomes strained at this point :-) The lawsuits regarding book indexing that I'm aware of appear to want to completely stop the indexing of a large part of all current and future books. This will cripple the potential of the technology as opposed to smoothing the rough edges.

I'm also not sure yet that there was any evil intent. I think the evil doer in question made the mistake of rushing a project that was (rightly) on pause pending further review because the competition was using the pause to develop... competition.

MS, on the other hand, is conducting their test at a very safe depth. Good call on their part, but maybe that's the luxury of being second.