Plugin Patent to Mean Changes in IE?

hexene writes "The W3C have issued an initial statement on the recent court case of Eolas v. Microsoft in regards to US Patent 5,838,906. The patent relates to the embedding of objects in hypermedia documents, and Microsoft has indicated they will have to make changes to Internet Explorer as a result of the ruling. There may also be far-reaching effects to both other web browser vendors and page authors. Check out the public mailing list to discuss the various issues." See the previous Eolas story for background.

Comments

This might be a good thing

[Dog and Pony]

If this means the end of overdesigned, shiny and glittery flash sites, and sites that demand IE because they want to use Active X objects etc, then I'm all for it.

I'm not hostile to new technology and all that, but these technologies are so frequently abused so anything that will lessen it will be a good thing.

software patents are bad... mmmmmk

[Anonymous Coward]

remember kids, the enemy of my enemy can still be a freaking jerk.

Re:Result of Lawsuit: Hypocrisy

[spitzak]

Hey stupid, before you troll, you might actually try reading what the "slashbots" are posting. I would say 95% of them are against these patents.

Re:That stinks.

[BetterThanCaesar]

.WAR

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing!

Re:You are both right

[Blkdeath]

Also is there an open source problem here, for instance let us say that MSFT agrees to pay royalites to allow their web browser to continue to work correctly, then the company claims that browsers such as Mozillia must also pay royalities?

I for one commit to paying upwards of 25% of the purchase price of the Mozilla Web Browser to this upstanding Intellectual Property organization.