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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Where is the "Evil M$" Crowd??

[ksemlerK]

"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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Oh no!! he used a M$ setup of Windoze 3.11 FW, M$-DO$ 6.22, and M$ Excel 5.0! He must be a pawn of the "Evil Empire M$". Why can't he use Linux on his 486? Everyone knows that Mandrake 9.1 works better than any M$ Windoze product on a 486 with 16 MB RAM and a 500 MB HDD. WAHHH!! It's not OSS!!! He can't free himself from the M$ grip of tyranny. Come on, It's a brave GNU world. Joseph Stallan, Er, Richard Stallman wont be pleased with this! He is going to the Siberian Goulag for sure. DIE CAPATALISTS!! LONG LIVE CARL MARX, AND JOSEPH STALLAN. HEIL HITLER!!

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OK, now that the piss ant whining is over, no body else needs to follow suit. This is a good discovery. Grow up MS is not out to kill you, steal your house, and rape your wife/daughter/mother/girlfriend. All the Whiners are just too cheap to buy a legit product, or do not know where/how to get a pirated copy. (Note: I did not say all OSS users. Just those who try and impose their preference on others.)

An OS is an OS. They are all good for different things. It is an operating system, not a religion. You do not need converts to Linux, or to Windows.

I have an old P1 running Windows NT 3.51, and that's good enough for that machine. My new machine runs Windows XP Professional. Did you hear that? I am using Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633 to type this, and mysteriously, this text appears exactly as it would have if I typed it on Windows 3.11, or Mandrake 9.1. Wow, pretty strange! Must be an act of God himself to allow this to happen. NOT!!

Understand this: What I decide to use on my computers at home will not directly interfere with any other person as long as it is 100% patched, fire walled, and has a up to date virus scanner. As long as a system is locked down, it does not matter what OS you are running. A Windows box is just as secure as a Linux box under if the proper measures are taken. Also, a Linux box can be just as insecure as Windows ME if the administrator is incompetent.

Also, if conversion of the masses to Linux is so important to you, why don't you quit talking bullshit about how MS is only easier because more people understand it, the masses are trained on it and not *nix, MS stole the technology, Et cetera? IF it is such a big deal, be proactive and change the situation by providing a service or solution that is not yet implemented by MS, and offer it in your distribution. And if you expect to have the masses desire your product, you have to provide it to a better quality than the competition would or does. People are resistant to change.

For change to occur, you have to be able to provide something that is in high demand, and at a good and reasonable price also. Also, just because your distribution is better than the rest as far as features and ease of use are concerned, does not mean that you will succeed. To succeed, you must have a form of advertisement, and a mission statement that can be met. It does not matter if I create the best OS and office suite on the market if only I have it, and maybe only 1000 other people. Without advertisement, and consumer product awareness, how do you expect it to succeed? It will not. An old saying, "It takes money to make money." still holds true in this case.

Granted choice is a good thing, but when there are choices of literally hundreds of distributions offering pretty close to the same experience, (Such as SuSE vs. Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. Lycoris), why would anyone want to compare the subtle differenc