While I enjoy SixToe's view of this whole thing, it is fairly silly to think that Dutch came out ahead in this whole thing somehow. I mean, if Mason had like a $60K a year income and spent that much on lawyers for a judgment he likely won't ever see, sure, Dutch wins the moral victory I guess. But that isn't the case, not by a longshot.

Mason is cold, humorless, vindictive, and a pretty f'n solid business man. He vigorously defends his intellectual property, like all good businesses would. Dutch is a terrible business man, and far from a sympathetic character, IMO. Dutch threw a rock at the 2p2 giant, or maybe just threw a rock that happened to hit the giant, and the giant smashed him for it. Sure it took some effort for the giant, but not a whole lot relatively, and the giant got satisfaction from it.

the giant won.