The irony is that they're able to stop all their security updates, even self-destroy with their home-calling mechanisms.

I'd love it if Motorola went all-in about it.

I bet you would love it. But think about it. Motorola can now extort ridiculous royalties from every company that provides:

DVD Players, Projectors, Video Cameras, Digital Cameras, Smartphones, Tablets, Operating Systems, Browsers, Portable Media Players, Consoles, TVs, Media Centers, PVRs.

The current situation is a joke. No small player can get above the radar at basically anything software or else they risk being sued out of business. Big players calculate their movements because they all have a big portfolio and they reach agreements. Most people cannot resort to this.

Hopefully a clusterfuck between two industry giants will cause a fundamental change in the rules of the game.

I wish all the devices you mentioned would be outlawed overnight to force a decided reaction. I'm willing to go full OSS and open formats, I'm mostly there anyway. Remember static GIFs? Here's hoping they do enforce all these patents to the fullest.

Yes! And they should!

The reply people on HN have been giving about these issues is "Don't hate the players, hate the game". I say it's a false dichotomy. You can hate both the game and the players.

But I love players who, like Motorola is doing here, demonstrate that and make everyone hate the game.

There is no recall, just a sales ban. Actually there is no sales ban yet either - Motorola has been prohibited from enforcing it. This is non-news, in two weeks some solution will be found and very few people will ever know or care about this issue.