Since it's Friday here's a REAL conspiracy theory... M$ is actually indirectly behind the lawsuit...timing it to explode about the same time they plan on launching their own rich client solution which operates outside the browser domain. (Hence the last version of IE)
The cost of the lawsuit is probably less than other venues to meet the same end considering the drastic effect this patent issuee will have on M$ competitors. (MM,Adobe etc..) Muahahahah! LoL Stace -----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 12, 2003 5:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: No so good news 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
