When will the persecution of MS *end*?!
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 20 12:47:30 UTC 2003
Peter L. Peres wrote:
>>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 ?
Anyone remember Stacker? It's a perfect example of the above. They
developed disk compression software. MS stole the technology and
included it in Windows. Stacker won in court, but by then the damage
had been done.
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