Microsoft holds off on Eolas-based tweaks

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it is their patent

"The EOLAS patent is a patent on automatically-loadable plugin technology, like Java applets or Flash plug-ins. Do you think that Opera or Mozilla aren't affected by this? Tim Berners-Lee, head of the W3C and maker of that standard you talk about (which Microsoft DOES adhere to, even if they add lots of extras) has weighed in on Microsoft's side, and has helped to push this re-evaluation of the patent by the US Patent Office. "

if they want to allow free browsers to use it with a limited license at no cost, they can...or offer a special price if the browser is not part of a OS...or anything right, it's their IP

if i remember correctly, ms burned this company and that is why they are in this boat, not because of anything else

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