"I doubt if there would be much basis for legal recourse based on that but I do think our relationship with Portal Player, which never matured into anything meaningful,.."

Maybe because they infringed...

Do you have an explanation why MP3 players were not on EDIG's "most wanted list"? Did RP ever give you an explanation on that?

TIA

I concur with your assessment of the ipod development and the ensuing speculation...almost identical concepts, save ipod was thinking exclusive while EDIG was thinking multicodec.