Comic Transcript
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Your Honor, the documentation format that Massachusetts standardized on — the “Open Document” format — is just that: completely open, patent and royalty free, created to ensure that a common format was available for anyone to use. if Ubersoft was so inclined it could easily add a feature to UberWordSoftPro that allowed it to use the format, and it wouldn’t cost them a dime in legal or licensing fees.
JUDGE: Is this true, counselor?
VIKTOR SCHRECK: I suppose.
(Silence.)
JUDGE: Then why don’t you —
VIKTOR SCHRECK: We don’t feel like it.
