<story><title>Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-patents-5b52cda0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bejd</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;XTm5v&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;XTm5v&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-patents-5b52cda0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acegopher</author><text>This was true of Microsoft in the 1990&amp;#x27;s. Just ask Gary Kildall among others.&lt;p&gt;My personal brush with this was in a startup I was at 3 years before RFC 2616 (HTTP compression). We had developed a client proxy and server that would not only compress HTML pages but also bundle in a zip file all the images (TCP connection ramp up time was a thing) and it dramatically sped up page load on what was then a slow internet.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft came sniffing, on the pretense they were interested in buying our company or at least licensing. But then they ghosted us, and if I recall correctly, those features ended up in IIS and Internet Explorer as proprietary extensions, when Microsoft was trying to embrace and extend the web to beat Netscape.</text></comment>