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Can Lotus Notes R3 Prior Art Save The Browser?
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."
"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"
He really needs to get laid.
He has valid licenses for DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 and Excel! Otherwise, he could be in some trouble with Microsoft.
yeah but why billions when we can have... millions ?
>copy of Excel 5.0 obtained from eBay,
Does that mean that Microsoft did refuse to send any free copy of an obsolete software to anybody who may spare them half a billion dollars?!
Christophe (Don't hesitate to point out my spelling and grammar mistakes, I want to learn - Thanks).
Where is the downside?
Here's one. Microsoft did say that they were not releasing a stand alone IE 7, that IE 6 was the last, right?
Microsoft Internet Exploder 666.NET! It has many new cool proprietary features. Its advanced features are tightly integrated to the powerful graphics, sound, multimedia, and DRM features of Windows! And this is all accomplished using proprietary code integrated into IE 666 without any of the patent-infringing plug in's that other evil infringing browsers are using.
Now meet... FrontPage 666.NET! Its advanced features are tightly integrated to IE 666.NET. Its wizards allow you to quickly and easily turn out glossy, glitzy, brightly colored, blinking, twitching, jumping, scrolling, seizure inducing web pages in an instant! The FrontPage 666.NET server extension component only runs in Windows servers, but it allows your FrontPage 666 pages to track which IE 666.NET users are seeing your pages, how long they stay, what links they read, even what parts of the page they scroll to or resize the window to cover up!
We're sure you'll agree that replacing your Apache servers with Windows, in order to run the FrontPage 666 extensions will be worth it.
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to write a web page. Would you like me to help you make it sound like you know what you are talking about?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Why does everyone have to incessantly shout
IANAL
IANAL
IANAL
over and fucking over again? Yes, we know that you are one of, I don't know, 5 and a half billion NONLAWYERS.
Christ, do people who sit around in the pub aruging politics and football routinely interject:
By the way guys, you might not want to listen to what I have to say next because--crap!--I just realized, I'm not a lawyer.
No, they don't. Now, will you people quit it already?. It is perfectly acceptable to make an observation without being a lawyer--if you're wrong, someone who knows better will inform you.
This meme, much like the people who use the word meme, ought to be shot.
Thank you and goodnight,
Anonymous Coward.
Tell me we wouldn't do a better job than the patent office...