[wdvltalk] Eolas vs. Microsoft

2003-09-19 Thread Cheryl D. Wise
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),

[wdvltalk] Eolas vs. Microsoft

2003-09-17 Thread Cheryl D . Wise
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