Well, really, you can be against Lodsys and for Apple. But it doesn’t really matter. The Macalope’s position on this is about the same as that of , who nicely sums up some of the differences and concludes thusly:

…I’m not sure I’m on Apple’s “side,” both as someone who doesn’t like software patents in general and as someone who generally likes Apple’s products.

The Macalope doesn’t fell like he really has a dog in this Google/Microsoft/Apple fight. He frankly doesn’t support dog-fighting at all. Or cock fighting. (That a euphemism, by the way.) But he doesn’t think you have to be rooting for someone to find it funny that one of the teams is complaining about the rules of the fight.

Still, if forced into absolutes, he’d gladly trade the dissolution of the Lodsys suit for the dissolution of Microsoft and Apple’s claims against Android hardware manufacturers. It’s not like Apple really needs the help of the courts to fight Android—it’s already taking all the profit. The Macalope worries more about independent developers getting extorted by idea squatters than three giant companies fighting with each other.