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."

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Yeeeehaaaw!

[His name cannot be s]

This is most excellent news.

Hey, as much as MS is a pain in the ass, they also tend to be a lightning rod for this sort of crap.

They at least have the ability to deflect some of the wrath of companies like eolas (which is not some small downtrodden either-- this is a company which specializes in buying patents from losers, and then using them to sue the shit out of companies.)

Microsoft needs to beat this, otherwise there may be hell to pay all over.

Damn Fine Job.

Re:Don't do it oz man

[naasking]

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant
Then they came for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up."
~ Pastor Martin Niemolle ~