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Microsoft vs. Burst.com
rocketjam writes "Robert X. Cringley has an interesting story on one of Microsoft's many little-known legal cases. Burst.com is suing Microsoft, claiming MS negotiated in bad faith for over a year before stealing Burst's patented technology for increasing the efficiency of video and audio streaming. After Microsoft submitted all emails associated with the their dealings with Burst to the court, Burst's lawyers discovered a 35-week gap of missing mail during a critical portion of the negotiations. When the judge learned the Sun vs. Microsoft antitrust case had revealed that MS keeps backups of all emails on over 100,000 tapes stored offsite, he ordered them to come up with the missing messages."
if burst.com has a legitimate claim, they should kick the shit out of microsoft. i mean its one thing to have people use a shitty os, but stealing, now that is just plain mean. the only way to kill the giant is to get it when it's hurting.
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The real enemy isn't Microsoft, IMHO they are just taking a worthless belief - "intellectual property" to its logical conclusion. Microsoft is the enemy, not because they are Microsoft, but because they have held themselves accountable to upholding and imposing an unjust and false property right.