Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
Man it takes big balls to do something like that. Too bad the average Joe Blow will fall for it, hook, line and sinker.
Unfortunately, so will the not so average Joe Blow by virtue of the fact that many will choose to ignore the past if nv ever comes to market with a competitive product. I doubt many, if any, will bat an eye at this kind of deception and snap up new products without any consequences to nv. So there'll be absolutely no incentive to stop this kind of action in the future and, nv's deceptiveness will be justified. Much like intel's P4 era, where they bribed and coherced(well, you know the rest) and when they finally had a product to market that could compete, there was no consequence. People turned a blind eye, intel continued on it's merry way and many pretended nothing ever happened (thanks in part to some unscrupulous viral marketing).

If people in the know lack any kind of backbone, how in the world can anyone expect regular Joe Blow consumers to have any clue what's going on, much less do anything about it. But you are right, IT IS too bad.