rivalry

You could even reintroduce the Perl rivalry in the form 'Perl is too hard to read', if you insist.

They are dominated by tribes, who have there own traditions & rivalry.

There is not really a rivalry between Rust and Go; they had different goals and Go is a fantastic language for its goals.

Windows Phone users are Google customers too and I couldn't care less about their petty rivalry with some other mega-corp.

And Marco's review touched on all those points, as well as the issue of Microsoft's retail strategy and the Microsoft-Apple rivalry.

This smells like a project they inherited with Intel with the likely purpose being rivalry with Nokia and perhaps internal politics.

But then again that title likely wouldn't have gotten as many upvotes on HN b/c apparently everybody likes a rivalry.

There was a constant palpable rivalry with both NYC and Southern California, a rivalry that was mostly one-directional.

As I understand it there's something of a rivalry between the Ruby and Node communities, and the Ruby community is known to be tolerant of boorish behavior.

> Trying to bully the competition with purchased patents and lawyers will only turn people off their productsActually, I doubt it will, as very few people care about the rivalry between large corporations.

Both the people in higher and lower rankings subliminally know their position, and so the people in lower rankings are subconsciously proscribed to submit to those of higher rankings when a rivalry springs up for the affection of a potential mate.

I don't care about the rivalry between two companies producing similar products... but this line really hit me hard:> Ideas are limitless and patents expire for a reason: to encourage competition, innovation, and the evolution of new ideas that ultimately benefit the end user.