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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Re:Mod me insightful for no real reason by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 21:33 · Score: 5, Informative

Apparently not.
OK! by Centurix · 2007-03-31 21:40 · Score: 5, Funny

I knew keeping my Netscape shares would pay off one day!

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No hoax foax by Joebert · 2007-03-31 21:44 · Score: 5, Funny

It's no hoax folks.
April Fools' day was moved to April 2nd when the United States adjusted Daylight Savings Time this year.

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