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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."

13 of 522 comments (clear)

  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love the first post of topic they rule. In russia, lotus notes you!.

  2. Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does it run linux?

  3. w00t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t

  4. Drat that Eolas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There always was something about Hercules' sidekick that rubbed me the wrong way.

  5. comp.sys.amiga.games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is dying. all people do in thdre is troll about piracy. Can some amiga people out there, start posting relevant stuff in there, and help drown out the trolls?

    1. Re:comp.sys.amiga.games by CausticWindow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Ahh.. comp.sys.amiga.games..

      Not that I ever read it, but the comp.sys.amiga hierarchy brings back some nice memories.

      Why on earth are you brining it up here, and in this context? Surely it's off topic?

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  6. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ha! Somebody wasted a mod point modding that down. You guys amuse me.

  7. Re:You got the magnitudes wrong by Cylix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You actually took the time to read the article?

    You must be new here.

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  8. Re:Frivolous McDonald's lawsuit by zabieru · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While I agree with your point, in fact the woman in question needed skin grafts, so bad were her burns. In addition, that McDonalds had been warned several times about the excessive temperatures of their coffee (you can get more out of the beans that way, but it's not safe to serve without allowing it to cool first).

  9. I HAVE A GREEN /. TROLL STUCK IN MY ASS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

  10. who sold it by beavmetal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have sold several copies of Excel 5.0, I wonder if he bought it from me.

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  11. Re:I agree by metamatic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flash as a built-in browser feature? Sure, I can see Macromedia releasing source code so it can be incorporated into Mozilla. Yeah, that'll happen.

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  12. Re:what's really sad... by grazzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this is the most racistic comment i ever read on slashdot.