What is missed that if Nintendo ever wins (and I hope they don't) then such a move will call into doubt the legality of reverse engineering and therefore the whole legacy PC ecosystem bar IBM produced systems to boot into Windows, Linux or MS-DOS if you want to go that far back. A whole lot of computers up until the introduction of UEFI will suddenly become illegal. It would be the biggest cutting off of their noses to spite their faces.
What is missed that if Nintendo ever wins (and I hope they don't) then such a move will call into doubt the legality of reverse engineering and therefore the whole legacy PC ecosystem bar IBM produced systems to boot into Windows, Linux or MS-DOS if you want to go that far back. A whole lot of computers up until the introduction of UEFI will suddenly become illegal. It would be the biggest cutting off of their noses to spite their faces.