Could Eolas End Microsoft's Browser Dominance?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday November 9, 2002 @01:19AM 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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Re:Plugins??? by Darby · 2002-11-09 08:06 · Score: 1, Troll

Just because they're after M$ in this case doesn't change that into a Bad Thing. Let's not fight Evil with evil.

Well, "we" already exhausted all possible legal and moral options and got a hearty "go fuck yourself" from the justice system.

What else is left to fight with besides evil?