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This article focuses on the industrial competition between Microsoft Corp. and RealNetworks Inc., related to the computer industry. RealNetworks released the underlying recipe, or source-code, of its RealPlayer software and will soon do the same for its other programs, giving away a big chunk of its...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 365; no. 8297; pp. 64 - 66
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Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 11/2/2002
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