My Enemy, My Love
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| A lot of companies curse Microsoft, and realnetworks used to
| be one of them. Three years ago it sued the software giant, charging that
| it was trying to monopolize the digital media business.
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| But Microsoft settled the suit...
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http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2006/0918/206c.html?partner=yahoomag
Nice to have memories return. The Netscape story was no exception and EU
courts are dealing with similar issues in the server space. The Internet
(e.g. Google, links to Live service in Windows Vista), as well as
information exchange (e.g. Adobe) are yet to boil some waters too. And
Microsoft will just open up its wallet, which is fuelled by those cash cows
it's allowed to preserve through payoffs (settlements). Microsoft exposes
the ugly sides of unsupervised capitalism.
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