This thing reminds me of the history of PC. As IBM's competitors wanted to clone IBM PC, they had to come up with legal ways of designing a computer, that runs the same software. And how did they do it? Simple.
First there was a team, that disassembled the whole thing and wrote very specific specs on how it works.
Then another team designed a machine based on those specs. And that's how the "100% IBM compatible PC" began it's life.
Naturally the copyright laws have changed, but in theory if someone would disassemble iRiver's software in the countries like Russia or China, and then release the specs, I think it would be possible to write open software OS and GUI for iRiver's players.
The point is, that if the new OS is 100% written by someone else, iRiver has nothing to sue them for.
Just my 0.20 euros
