The chief legal officer of Newegg _wants_ these cases and to take them to completion in attempts to correct the problems with software patents. One should be optimistic because Newegg is putting up the good fight and winning rather often. If it were almost any other company, you'd be hearing about a settlement if you heard anything at all. As a Newegg customer, I am glad that some of my dollars are going towards these kinds of legal costs and that's the type of thing that comes to mind when making decisions about where to buy.
this is the sole reason i rather buy from them instead of amazon. before those cases, i steered clear of newegg as i do of any merchant that bores me with coupons and rebates.
This is an excellent point! I hope everyone who cares about this issue is doing their part and voting with their dollars. Yes, donate to EFF, write to your congresscritter/senator, but also reward the business that invests money in causes that you care about. Sure, they are doing it to benefit their bottomline, but they could just as easily have paid that money to make the problem go away like so many other businesses did.
Newegg has been my exclusive source of tech goods since they started standing up to trolls. I intend to keep rewarding them with my repeat business.
Thank you for the reminder. I've been a long-time customer of them, but I had forgotten that this was one of the reasons. (How embarassing to admit that.) Even while reading this, my thoughts were, "Man, I'm glad Newegg is so awesome" -- rather than "I am glad I am spending my money there". Now I'm glad of both. ;)
Some more information about previous cases:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corp...