Peter L. Peres wrote:

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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. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml