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Can Lotus Notes R3 Prior Art Save The Browser?

Posted by michael on from the ozzie-wan-kenobi-you're-my-only-hope dept.

theodp writes "Apparently stunned by the implications of Eolas vs Microsoft, Ray Ozzie of Lotus Notes and Groove fame offers up Notes R3 as prior art for the notorious Eolas patent. To bolster his argument, Ozzie used the Notes R3 feature set to recreate a scenario close to what was described in the patent. After the hard part of putting together a Notes R3 computing environment that included MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and a circa-1993 copy of Excel 5.0 obtained from eBay, it only took Ozzie about 15 minutes to knock out a demo without any programming using the out-of-the-box UI of Notes and Excel."

3 of 522 comments (clear)

  1. Meh. by dosius · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd take anything that would serve as prior art. Software patents are teh sux and they have to go. FP?

    -uso.

    --
    What you hear in the ear, preach from the rooftop Matthew 10.27b
  2. Dude.... by appleLaserWriter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Plugins have made browsers worse, rather than better. Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash.

    The browsers have been going downhill since the <img> tag. You might be able to read slashdot from lynx, but just try terraserver or mapquest from a text mode browser!

    Don't even get me started on the graphic requirements for registering a user at yahoo or Network Soltions.

  3. Re:what's really sad... by bryanthompson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You must be jewish, because no non-jew could say something like that and get away with it!