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- From: Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Microsoft to pay .5 bn for license to extend web-browser
- Date: 13 Aug 2003 16:46:13 +0200
- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology
One hope is that, as a result of this kind of offensive cases, Microsoft
would finally realize how bad software patents are and revert to their
earlier (at least Bill Gates') critical view of software patents, but...
maybe that is to hope for too much.
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:16, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> This is pretty bad news, because it means that ActiveX and all systems
> for extending browsers by scripts are at the mercy of the owner of
> a broad and trivial logic patent, main claim is listed in
>
> http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/effects/eolas/
>
> GregNews discloses some interesting facts about this patent:
Roland
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