For every Valve saved we have thousands of other being buried. This still happens every day and it works differently from the article more often than not. This

For every Valve saved we have thousands of other being buried. This still happens every day and it works differently from the article more often than not. This strategy is what a lot of big companies with deep pockets use to quash something even when they're in the wrong. > "The next thing we know, here comes this big stack of counter-claims," said Valve general counsel Karl Quackenbush. "Everything from canceling the 2001 agreement, to obtaining ownership of all the Half-Life IP, to keeping us from doing Steam." > "We're gonna put Valve out of business, and we're gonna bankrupt the two of you," Lynch said of Vivendi's strategy. The threat of being litigated into the ground by someone with more money for lawyers is a great truth and competition burying tool and it's used every day.