VirtualLarry
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| Re: So you cant sell products in the stores???? said by BosstonesOwn  :
This is the repercussions of what happens when every company goes after microsoft. Now every company thinks it has the right to sue over anti competitive practices.
Nintendo and Sega were both sued over anti-competitive practises before MS, I think.
What's sad is, that the gov't itself isn't the one initiating these suits in the first place, which they should be, rather leaving the onus upon the relatively un-monied consumer to pursue the legal action.
I guess the question is, is this "Vonage-only" VoIP jack in the back of the router, considered an anti-competitive lock-out, like the lock-out chip in the old 8-bit Nintendo console was? I sincerely hope it gets tried by a jury trial.
PS. My old SMC 7004VBR's new firmware, changed the support for dynamic DNS, from a couple of providers to only one provider, probably based on a business transaction between them and SMC.
Personally, I wouldn't mind some pro-competetive anti-exclusionary regulation over the VoIP market. You know things are going to get ugly and proprietary before they are going to get easy and interoperable by consumers, right? This is only the first wave. |
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