Stacy wrote: >I'm curious to know how it would affect Netscape and others...
It'll affect them the same way, exactly. The patent covers the automatic launching of an external program (in current parlance, an applet or a plugin); which everyone does. http://www.eolas.com/technology.html Everybody but the patent holder loses big... Except maybe Microsoft or a 3rd party as yet unknown. The courts turn a 98% installed base of Flash plugins into 0% by making them illegal until Something Happens to fix the problem. Thats a window of opportunity for a competing solution; maybe big, maybe small (real small, I hope). -- ------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com ------------------------------------------- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
