500 billion not enough for MS?

How typical from a MS emplopyee -- what else does one expect from the 
greediest, monopolistic software company in the industry: 500 billion not 
enough?  

Here's the posting: One posting to a W3C newsgroup, from a person claiming to 
be a Microsoft employee, defended the proposal. "Patents are a critical part 
of our Intellectual Property systems and a key underpinning of our capitalist 
economy," the posting read.