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Could Eolas End Microsoft's Browser Dominance?

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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