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Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:It is already April 1st in Germany by Alphager · · Score: 3, Informative

    damnit, i hoped i could get it onto the frontpage.
    you have ruined the joke! ;-)

  2. Re:It is already April 1st in Germany by karearea · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ahh the joys of global communication ... in another 2 hours 40 minutes it will be the 2nd of April ... at least in the land of the long white cloud ... others will catch up in due course :-)

  3. Ponies!! Ponies!! by eclectro · · Score: 4, Informative

    I want to see some ponies! pink ones! slashdot is lame.

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    1. Re:Ponies!! Ponies!! by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Cue new headline "Digg sues Slashdot over patented posting method. Low submitter IQ 'cornerstone of Diggs's success'"

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  4. Re:Mod me insightful for no real reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently not.

  5. Re:SlashRating by intercodes · · Score: 4, Informative

    I found out something. Try coding in large values in the URL string..

    http://slashdot.org/slashdottit.shtml?vote="BIG NUMBER HERE"

    It's interesting.

    Did I succeed :)?

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  6. Re:Mod me insightful for no real reason by Clazzy · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ok then.

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  7. Re:Mod me insightful for no real reason by Ilgaz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Funny is the "metamoderation" doesn't know about April 1 and moderators will be punished to hell when this comment shows up in metamoderation 4 days later or something :)

  8. Self-referential post attempt by SamSim · · Score: 2, Informative

    This post is modded +5, Informative!

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  9. Re:Opera by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're making a serious, meaningful comment on hoax news on April 1st.

    C'mon, get into the spirit of the day and lower your IQ by 100. At least. Do like I did and soak your brain in alcohol. It really does the job well.

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  10. Re:Mod me insightful for no real reason by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not so suare: the child of a male donkey and a female horse is a mule. A female donkey and a male horse make a hinney.

    What do you call the result of a llama that's been stuffed with RAM? Maybe we need a new word: for a woolly-thinking creature that has lots of memory that can't be accessed, we could call it a reagan?