Sentinel: I completely disagree. No customer in their right mind would pay for development of a custom product/platform and not expect it to be theirs exclusively. I assume that the contractual agreements state this, but in a case wherein they don't, ethics would seem to dictate that the customer who paid for a custom platform to be developed could expect that the company is not going to go out and license the platform they funded to its competitors. If e.Digital did that, I think they would have a lot of trouble finding innovative customers in the future. I think it would be a suicidal business strategy.
Truly, I remain shocked that no one else on this forum thinks that there is a legal or ethical issue involved with EDIG to attempting to sell custom platforms it developed under contract for specific customers like APS, Eclipse and Softeq/HP to other customer.