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Would anyone care to give some context for this?

• ypcx 15y ago
  A monopoly status quo company patents something completely ridiculous in the hope that no other company can ever get ahead of them in the same product spectrum, and then later attacks another company, which earlier refused to become their customer and instead boldly built their own database products, which is why they conquered the world, at which point the monopoly company realizes it's way too late to save their monopoly already on the path of irreversible self-destruction. Less dramatic version: http://www.google.com/patents/US6192476 http://www.google.com/patents/US6192476