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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. Flamebait? by Bunji+X · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I am flaming, but the parent is interresting?

    Overrated or Offtopic would have been ok, but Flamebait???

    Hopefully metamod will get these loosers.

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    1. Re:Flamebait? by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Your IQ is 138, and you don't know the difference between 'losers' and 'loosers?' Riiight. Maybe you'll figure it out by the time you finish Grade 9.

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  2. Re:What a situation by Karamchand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh what a pity! If I knew you guys would like this posting I would not have written it as AC but as registered karmawhore!

  3. Re:Plugins??? by Seka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't care about browser wars, but i love tools that are plugged in.