I definitely agree that the patent system has issue. Personally I don't
think it's fair to own a patent on concepts. It just doesn't make sense.
I didn't agree that Adobe should be allowed to own the 'toolbar' and I
definitely don't think multimedia on a website is worthy of patent. So
yeah, I agree he never should have been allowed to patent such a thing,
but at the time the patent office was probably not the technologically
savvy enough to realize how retarded this patent is. I think US patent
laws need to be reformed for software.
But Eolas is still only suing MS and that is precisely my issue with
him. I don't think he has any intentions of suing Apple and AOL. Which
in my book are still pretty big fish. They have openly said they are
trying to 'balance the internet browser war'. (ie. We're only going to
sue MS)
Eolas _did_ offer to sell MS rights, but I have to side with MS's
philosophy on this one. I wouldn't pay close to a billion dollars just
so IE users can be saved a single click. It's just not cost effective.
Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:52 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT (was Re: Macromedia sinks on sales news)
> Since there's nothing we can do about it, we just have to use the
> workaround and hope that Eolas goes belly up.
>
Alternatively, you could get mad at the patent system instead and work
to change that instead of wasting time on the latest company exploiting
it.
Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.MontaraSoftware.com
(888) 408-0900 x901
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