[ale] OT: no more active X in IE?

[Dow Hurst]

MS has money so will be sued.  Does the Mozilla project actually have 
funds to be taken?  Does any Open Source project represent a source of 
money to be taken?  Maybe licensing fees from consumers of Open Source 
could be targeted but how to collect?  Will all Open Source download 
servers end up in strange places away from US Law?  More to come as the 
world turns.  Tune in next year on the same bat channel.

Just kidding around.  I have no idea what is happening anymore 
anywhere.  You ever feel like that?  Right now, I am just happy tomorrow 
is Labor Day and I'll be Laboring on Linux.
Dow


Jeff Rose wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:24, Geoffrey wrote:
>  
>
>>From:
>>
>>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3070591
>>
>>'Eolas' patent (US Patent 5,838,906) was granted on November 17, 1998 
>>and covers technologies for the creation of a browser system that 
>>allowed for the embedding of small interactive programs, such as 
>>plug-ins, applets, scriptlets or ActiveX Controls, into online documents.'
>>
>>Seems to me this would affect all browsers, but these guys won a .5 
>>billion $ suite against M$.
>>    
>>
>
>I was cautiously happy when I heard about this.  Though it is always
>nice to see MS lose a battle, I wonder how this will effect Mozilla and
>other free browsers.  Will everyone have to pay an Eolas tax just to
>include embedded object support in a browser or does this just have to
>do with the way ActiveX works?  What about Java, applets, php?  From
>what I have read of the patent, it is very vague and doesn't represent a
>real product, just an idea.  I'm worried this will in the long run
>damage the Open Source community as much or more than MS.
>
>Jeff Rose
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