When will the persecution of MS *end*?!

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 20 10:56:34 UTC 2003


> RealNetwork is like after-market car radio company that is suing GM
> because GM has the arrogance to put radio in all GM cars, thereby
> shutting out after-market radio companies.

You mean, if someone invents something and someone else grabs the idea and
uses it with slight changes, just enough to avoid a patent suit, and makes
millions out of it by leveraging its monopoly position, it's ok, right ?

If M$ had invented the idea they could have monopolized it until forever
and nobody would have minded. But they did not. Notice that no-one is
suing them over the Word .doc format or .xls or anything like that. Wonder
why ?  Because it's theirs.

Peter
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