Here's another take on how the Eolas patent could change the net as we
know it.
Microsoft may be left with no choice but to disable the plug-in architecture
that so many Web users depend on for experiencing dynamically driven content
via technologies like Adobe's Acrobat (for PDF files),
Most of you are aware of that Microsoft lost a lawsuit where Eolas is
claiming a patent on all active linking in Internet Explorer (affects
Flash and probably every other plug-in and not just for IE but Opera
and probably other browsers as well). There is an interesting article
which shows