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Could Eolas End Microsoft's Browser Dominance?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the color-me-skeptical dept.

rustynail writes "The tiny Eolas web company is about to lock horns with Microsoft in a legal battle over a patent that Eolas owns covering all uses of plugins, applets, activeX controls and other similar technology. The difference here is that, according to this article Eolas might not accept a payout: instead they might exclude IE from using these technologies at all.. opening the way for a new browser war." We mentioned this dispute a few years ago, too, but an outcome to the Justice Department's case against Microsoft was far off in 1998.

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  1. Nomen est omen... by rainer_d · · Score: 3, Funny

    EOL for IE or so ;-)

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  2. Re:What a situation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes I also hate articles where slashdot does not tell me my opinion!

  3. "Eolas might not accept a payout:..." by Dutchmaan · · Score: 5, Funny

    or in other words.. Eolas would accept a larger than normal payout.

  4. Re:If the patent is as wide ranging as that... by Charm · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about viruses? They can come as embedded code in a web page sent as email.

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  5. Re:Shockwave IS useful (its not) by morgajel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can only think of two good uses for shockwave or flash....
    joe cartoon and Killfrog

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  6. Re:Shockwave IS useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    and those stupid scroll bars that look so cool but suck

  7. yeah, it would help Microsoft by g4dget · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Microsoft is forced to remove ActiveX, Microsoft Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and all that, that would get rid of many security holes in IE. IE might finally be moderately secure.