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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. ;aslkjfa;lsdkfjasd;lkfjasd;lfkj by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For Patty

    the love of my life

  3. Hercules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eolas cant take the payout because Hercules (played by Kevin Sorbo) is an avid Linux geek.

  4. Patents.. they just make it up as they go along by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bill Gates:"Eolas? Pfft! They just make it up while they go along. I could do that. (To the tune of 'Mary had a Little Lamb)Doo do do doo do do doo, do do doo, do do doo."

    CowboyNeal:"That's Mary had a Little Lamb."

    Bill Gates:"O.K. then, dee de de dee de de dee, de de dee, de de dee."

    CowboyNeal:"That's the same thing, you just replaced doo's with dee's."

    Bill Gates:"D'oh!"

  5. Leaked XDOCS Spec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The leaked XDOCS Spec is now up at:

    http://www.lemonparty.org

    Apparantly Linux is not left out! Good News!

  6. 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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  7. 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!

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

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