>>By the time you posted your views on this, had you spoken/communicated with anyone with professional experience in any of these areas (whether software, legal, or both)?
Predictably, legal advice was that the more you know, the more you realize you don't know. And that test cases are of interest to corporates with legal budgets, not small business people who can hope at best for a Pyrrhic victory once the legal bill arrives. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
