"If digital-music veteran Rob Lord wanted to court controversy with his new open-source start-up, he probably couldn't have done much better than to compare Apple Computer's iTunes software to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.
"Lord's new five-person company, the ambitiously named Pioneers of the Inevitable, is building a piece of digital-music software called 'Songbird,' based on much of the same underlying open-source technology as the Firefox Web browser..."
