Of course not. Then again, supporting institutions which donate to abortionist causes isn't a conservative trait, right?
You may want to tread very lightly here.
Maybe you missed the part about how in order to fight the charge, he'd have to pay Microsoft's legal fees. Easier to roll over.
And by the way, if what Ball says is true, and the software was sitting on a hard drive unused, then Microsoft suffered no real damages. Do you support suing them on principle, which is what that amounted to?