First of all, as the news article states, AOL hasn't even confirmed that a suit has been filed. Secondly, it sounds like two children getting in trouble with their mother:
"If I did break the vase, Timmy should be in just as much trouble as me! I really didn't break the vase...but if I did..."
This makes me think that any company (MP3Board.com) that would try to pull this kind of stunt is, in fact, either run by children, OR knows something more about AOL's involvement in the creation of Gnutella than we (or maybe I) do. Alternately, it could just be an attempt by MP3Board.com to get attention pointed in someone else's direction.
"[Open Source Developers] have a personal, vested interest in coding the solution. This personal interest is what drives coders to bang on the keyboard until the wee hours of the morning and not even realize what time it is."
...and affords them the right to adamantly defend it in the occasional flame war.
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First of all, as the news article states, AOL hasn't even confirmed that a suit has been filed. Secondly, it sounds like two children getting in trouble with their mother:
"If I did break the vase, Timmy should be in just as much trouble as me! I really didn't break the vase...but if I did..."
This makes me think that any company (MP3Board.com) that would try to pull this kind of stunt is, in fact, either run by children, OR knows something more about AOL's involvement in the creation of Gnutella than we (or maybe I) do. Alternately, it could just be an attempt by MP3Board.com to get attention pointed in someone else's direction.
"[Open Source Developers] have a personal, vested interest in coding the solution. This personal interest is what drives coders to bang on the keyboard until the wee hours of the morning and not even realize what time it is."
...and affords them the right to adamantly defend it in the occasional flame war.
Ditto.
"...few are familiar with routing standards such as the Boundary Gateway Protocol..."
I wasn't aware that BGP's name had been changed.