>>>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)?
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>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. ;-)

Pyrrhic victory? How puerile of you to take a Parthian shot like that!!! :)