richcz3
09-21-2003, 05:21 PM
Start thinking about re-designing your web sites if this case fails the appeals court. It effects all browsers even Opera and Netscape.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-5079580.html
Eolas founder and sole employee Mike Doyle said the W3C was right to take a closer look at HTML with respect to his patent.
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Options the PAG could recommend include a technical workaround or new wording in HTML and related specifications warning that authors who implement the tags in question should contact the patent holders and take out a license, if necessary. Chaching!!! $$$$$ :surprised
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While Microsoft has pledged to appeal the ruling, it has already prepared for a worst-case scenario, as have companies such as Macromedia and Sun Microsystems whose technologies rely heavily on IE's ability to play plug-ins--the capability found to infringe on the Eolas patent.
richcz3
http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-5079580.html
Eolas founder and sole employee Mike Doyle said the W3C was right to take a closer look at HTML with respect to his patent.
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Options the PAG could recommend include a technical workaround or new wording in HTML and related specifications warning that authors who implement the tags in question should contact the patent holders and take out a license, if necessary. Chaching!!! $$$$$ :surprised
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While Microsoft has pledged to appeal the ruling, it has already prepared for a worst-case scenario, as have companies such as Macromedia and Sun Microsystems whose technologies rely heavily on IE's ability to play plug-ins--the capability found to infringe on the Eolas patent.
richcz3