Java News Collector wrote:
>
> 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.
>
The silly thing is, if Java is infringing this patent then so are
Microsoft's Active-X objects running in ASP scripts or on the browser.
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Darryl Luff
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