Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

[Java News Collector]

At 10:21 AM 12/7/98 -0800, David Wall wrote:
>>What is the idea of Java? Portable code.
>
>If that's all they claim, they will lose, since portable code has existed
>long before their patent.  Now, portable code inside web browser may be
>different, though some might argue that HTML itself is code that executes
>inside a browser, so again, such patents may be VERY hard to enforce.
>
>David

Its more like they patented the browser plug-in concept with distributed
capability(?)  Java can run outside the browser.  If the patent is
applicable to Java it should only pertain to the Java plug-in and
in-browser execution.

Patents may be found at http://www.uspto.gov/

Douglas Toltzman (who will now stop sending all this noise)