Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 31, 2007 @09:17PM from the total-copy-cats dept.

SlashRating^© 64 slashdottit! ^tm According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7. The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California. The Foundation wants that MS immediately ceases to distribute IE 7 and pays 1.4 Billion dollars in damages. Heise reports that Microsoft has issued no official response, but is contemplating to ship IE 7 NT (no tabs).

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Boo Mozilla!!! by psykocrime · 2007-03-31 11:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Boo, Mozilla! I know it's cool to hate Microsoft and all, and (God|Satan|Allah|Zeus|Zoroaster|Whoever) knows I hate
them as much as anybody... but this is bullshit. Software Patents are evil and insidious no matter who wields them. I personally
hope Microsoft thumps Mozilla and has their patent declared invalid.

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why???? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 21:58 · Score: -1, Flamebait

wow I just lost all respect for the mozilla foundation. Sure ill still use firefox because its the best their is but I wonlonger respect the shot callers for this case