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Company Files Motion to Stop IE Distribution
RobHornick writes "According to CNET News, Eolas Technologies, a company that's already won a patent infringement judgement against Microsoft regarding Internet Explorer, has filed a motion to stop Microsoft from distributing its IE software until they remove Eolas' patented technology for running plug-ins, or pay up for a license."
system intrusion levels have never been lower! DEATH TO M$!
toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I've got this friend, let's call him Cmdr T. No, that's too obvious, let's call him C.R. Taco. Anyway, Mr. Taco has been "noticing" other men lately, if you catch my drift.
It all started out when Taco was at his favorite local bar, the Man Hole. He would go there every night and have a few banana daiquiris and watch pre-taped episodes of The View and Oprah. So there he was in his favorite leather chaps and little else, sipping his daiquiri and watching Oprah when this guy sits down at the stool next to him. One thing leads to another and Taco is in the parking lot bent over his Mazda Miata, taking it up the ass like a champ. His suitor comes hard, and they decide to head back to Taco's apartment.
So the next thing you know, Taco has this guy strapped to his pommel horse and he's pounding the stranger's ass with everything he's got. All of a sudden, it hits him: "I might be gay!"
So I'm asking for your opinion here. Do you think that cruising floof bars and having anonymous sex with other men makes me, I mean him, a little gay, or is this perfectly normal heterosexual activity?
this bone all up in your mouth
Noone wants to be defeated
All mozilla needs to do is have code like the following:and any geek can recompile it and run it... I am sure most of us have a friend who can do it for us if we are not able to.
Real Justice?
In this country?
WhoTF are you kidding?
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
I think you are right on the money. Having 17 year patents in an industry that practically re-invents itself every 2-5 years is ridiculus. Not to mention that what's bad for Microsoft in this case is worse for the rest of us. Microsoft will just replace 3rd party plug-ins with "built-in's" such as (you guessed it) Powerpoint, Word, and Excel. Instead of downloading Mozilla for free to see your favorite web page, you will need to buy Microsoft Office.
In many ways, this decision might actually be good for Microsoft! If Microsoft buys this company, it could be the end of browser and plug-in wars for the next 8 years or so.
Substituting "built-ins" for optional "plug-ins" will probably make browser downloads many times bigger than they already are. Plus, it kills a whole segment of the tech market (one that Microsoft had effectively not entered). So long Acrobat, Flash, Quick-Time and client-side Java. Most major web sites will have to be completely revamped - as will all the processes that update them. January suddenly seems right around the corner! As someone-else pointed out, unemployment for Web Developers is officially over.
P.S. Let's hope a very different jury hears the SCO case.