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> Error log for Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:39:40 +0100: segfault in module Daeron -
> dump details are as follows...
>>The Microsoft letter says Schnazzle competes with a planned extension to
>>the Windows operating system that would allow PCs to wirelessly stream
>>media files to other devices.
>>A Microsoft representative confirmed the letter and said the company is
>>negotiating with Esiod. "We're working with them to protect our
>>intellectual property rights," the representative said.
> Geez, these people are frigging incredible!  They don't even want to give
> competing technologies a chance to develop, much less thrive.
> Just goes to show you when you do business with M$, you are no longer in
> control.  Tony Soprano could learn alot from these guys.

> http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-1015223.html
> Microsoft stalls software maker
> David Becker,  June 10 2003
> ---

> Lawyers representing the software giant sent a cease-and-desist letter
> last week to Esiod Systems, a small, Monroe, Wash.-based software company
> formed early this year by former Microsoft developers Siddhartha Rao and
> Caleb Doise. The letter demands that the company halt planned
> distribution of Schnazzle, an inexpensive shareware application Esiod had
> planned to begin selling this week.

> ---

> The Microsoft letter says Schnazzle competes with a planned extension to
> the Windows operating system that would allow PCs to wirelessly stream
> media files to other devices.

> A Microsoft representative confirmed the letter and said the company is
> negotiating with Esiod. "We're working with them to protect our
> intellectual property rights," the representative said.
> -------

> Error log for Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:39:40 +0100: segfault in module Daeron
> - dump details are as follows...

>> The Microsoft letter says Schnazzle competes with a planned extension
>> to the Windows operating system that would allow PCs to wirelessly
>> stream media files to other devices.

>> A Microsoft representative confirmed the letter and said the company is
>> negotiating with Esiod. "We're working with them to protect our
>> intellectual property rights," the representative said.

> Geez, these people are frigging incredible!  They don't even want to
> give competing technologies a chance to develop, much less thrive.

> Just goes to show you when you do business with M$, you are no longer in
> control.  Tony Soprano could learn alot from these guys.

>> Error log for Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:39:40 +0100: segfault in module Daeron
>> - dump details are as follows...

>>> The Microsoft letter says Schnazzle competes with a planned extension
>>> to the Windows operating system that would allow PCs to wirelessly
>>> stream media files to other devices.

>>> A Microsoft representative confirmed the letter and said the company is
>>> negotiating with Esiod. "We're working with them to protect our
>>> intellectual property rights," the representative said.

>> Geez, these people are frigging incredible!  They don't even want to
>> give competing technologies a chance to develop, much less thrive.

>> Just goes to show you when you do business with M$, you are no longer in
>> control.  Tony Soprano could learn alot from these guys.

> What a great way to get free code for something somebody else thought up.
> It looks like it is even dangerous to work for M$.

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:10:15 +0200, Ian Hilliard

>>> Error log for Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:39:40 +0100: segfault in module
>>> Daeron - dump details are as follows...

>>>> The Microsoft letter says Schnazzle competes with a planned extension
>>>> to the Windows operating system that would allow PCs to wirelessly
>>>> stream media files to other devices.

>>>> A Microsoft representative confirmed the letter and said the company
>>>> is negotiating with Esiod. "We're working with them to protect our
>>>> intellectual property rights," the representative said.

>>> Geez, these people are frigging incredible!  They don't even want to
>>> give competing technologies a chance to develop, much less thrive.

>>> Just goes to show you when you do business with M$, you are no longer
>>> in control.  Tony Soprano could learn alot from these guys.

>> What a great way to get free code for something somebody else thought
>> up. It looks like it is even dangerous to work for M$.

> the usual thing with these sorts of contracts is for the ex-employee to
> be forbidden to do work on anything that is similar to what they have
> just been working on... Microsoft have a variant... anything that
> Microsoft is working on or is even postulating or touting as
> vapourware... that effectively prevents you from doing anything at all
> afterwards if it looks like being successful...