[loewenskind]

This sounds a bit hyperbolic. The company that is notorious for doing this is Microsoft.

[statictype]

[Citation needed]

[loewenskind]

You can't possibly be serious. You don't know of Microsoft's long history of copying software that other companies had made, putting them out of business? And three other people as well apparently.

[statictype]

'Copying software'? Well, no, I'm not aware of Microsoft's long history of doing this. Surely you don't count Excel as a 'copy' of VisiCalc or Lotus 123 right?

[loewenskind]

I can't believe history can be completely forgotten in less than 20 years.

Here are a couple of links I found with a quick googling:

http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20071215231524/http://www.vcnet.c...

The second tries to document every company destroyed by MS and how.