Dude, he invented the friggin' iPod. Have you heard of it?

*sigh*

The source is the Daily Mail, so the article is going to be so badly misrepresented it might as well be made up.

For US readers, Daily Mail loosely translates as National Enquirer

Good story. Only one problem: despite the impression you'd get looking at the picture, the Burst vs Apple patent case had nothing to do with the design of the iPod.

Burst's patents largely cover techniques for moving large amounts of media data around over networks (something which, as should be obvious, Apple's products do a lot of).

Although 14 of their 36 claims of infringement were dismissed by the judge, Apple settled with them in November last year - to the tune of $10 million. In that sense, Apple did better than Microsoft, which settled for $60 million.

does anyone else hear the title of this post being said by Henchmen 21?

I hope by "settled out of court" they mean that Burst paid all of Apple's legal fees, and didn't get a dime out of Apple for their unfounded lawsuit.

They compensated him since his testimony defused the burst lawsuit it seems.

Nice of apple to be prepared to negotiate compensation even though they don't actually have to, since the patent is expired anyway.

"Pyxis" was the development name for the Microsoft Zune. Coincidence? I think not!

Wow, he seems pretty nice. 10 hours of questioning? Woah