The Future of Xfire

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I hope this doesn't make trouble for everyone...

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Posted on Xfire the other day :

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Xfire surpasses 1 million member mark and responds to patent infringement claims.

We wanted to let you know that Xfire has reached the 1 million member mark over the past year! We’re extremely proud of this milestone. Our rapid growth is a result of providing innovative tools and services to make online gaming easy.
 
In addition, we want to update you on the latest news regarding Xfire. You may have heard that Xfire has been sued by Yahoo for patent infringement. We have reviewed the patent infringement claims with our lawyers, and Xfire does not infringe the Yahoo patent.
 
We were surprised and disappointed that Yahoo filed the lawsuit without first contacting Xfire to discuss the situation. We did not receive a cease and desist letter, and we were initially notified only the afternoon before the lawsuit was filed.
 
# We want to resolve this matter quickly and have offered Yahoo our willingness to do any of the following: We have offered to let Yahoo’s co-founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo, review our code to make them comfortable that we don’t infringe Yahoo’s patent.
# We have offered mediation as a step towards resolving the matter.
# Finally, we are willing to pursue arbitration, in which case we will accept the arbitrator’s decision as binding and final.

We are hopeful that Yahoo will accept one of these approaches.
 
We are confident that this situation will ultimately be resolved in our favor, and we hope to put it behind us as quickly as possible. It is through our users and friends of Xfire, like you, that we have grown so quickly.
 
Thanks for your support,
The Xfire Team

Let's just hope it stays like that, and they sort out the grouping system within Xfire that we now really need