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Retrial Slated for Microsoft v. Eolas

Posted by Zonk on from the back-on-the-wheel dept.

wwphx writes "Back to trial they go. Microsoft won a decision stating that evidence of a prior browser, Viola, was excluded from the previous trial." From the article: "It had also suggested that Mike Doyle, Eolas' founder and a former UC researcher, had intentionally concealed his knowledge of Viola when filing the patent claim." Commentary also available from Forbes and ZDNet.

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  1. FpQ shit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    coNflicts t4at

  2. Re:Another Big Victory for MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hmm thats funny, they won the same thing two days before! KARMA WHORE

  3. Dupe post in a dupe story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, come on. You posted the same exact thing yesterday. In fact it was proably a cut-n-paste as your "in two days" reference should now be "in three days".

    It's one thing for a dupe story but dupe comments in a dupe story is even worse. KARMA WHORE!!

  4. Re:News for lawyers, stuff that matters by bonch · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Slashdot used to post a lot of really great scientific and technical articles. In the past five years, it has taken a political advocacy slant, and the stories have become much less technical, to the point that the majority of readers don't even click the links and instead just post away. These days, it's non-stop "YRO" nonsense, pro-piracy articles, and another "Linus said this" dupe.

    I paint a grim picture, but for those of us who started coming here in the 90s, there's been an incredible downhill slide of content that just reaks of laziness. It's easy to post a flamebait litigation article and get some cheap page hits rather than post a technical article that requires some thought and knowledge on the subject to discuss it.