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Funny you should mention open source, for once that community (led by the W3C) actually seems to support MS on this one. Not only that, the CEO of Eolas has [url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1496493,00.asp]publicly stated[/url] that anyone who makes money from their browser is fair game. This includes the newly for profit [url=http://www.mozilla.org/reorganization/]Mozilla Corporation[/url], Apple (Safari), Opera, and Netscape. After all, Eolas is just like any other company, they're just out to make a buck.

They have only stated that they will provide royalty-free licenses for non-commerical entities. But really, if they win, what's to stop them? Or, picture this, Eolas wins and then somebody acquires Eolas and decides to sell their own browser. Bam, they force everyone to license only their browser and kill off all the FOSS and commercial browsers with excessive licensing fees.

Make no mistake, this definitely affects every last browser with a plug-in architecture, open-source, closed-source, free, and commercial. This isn't good news for anyone.
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Getting worse every day for MS (NT)  mabricen | 10/31/05
You realize this affects ALL browsers?  java.user | 10/31/05
You are crazy!  An_Axe_to_Grind | 10/31/05
Are you sure?  Patrick Jones | 10/31/05
Yes  java.user | 10/31/05
and no  IT_User | 10/31/05
Ironic  java.user | 11/01/05
no irony  Scott W | 11/01/05
as expected  andrewflagg@... | 10/31/05
You're kidding, right? this is one EVERYBODY want MS to win  John Zern | 10/31/05
Well, perhaps not everybody...  Yen_z | 11/01/05
Wrong!!!  Update victim | 11/01/05
Supreme Court won't review Microsoft patent appeal  Loverock Davidson | 10/31/05
Don't lose hope!  tic swayback | 10/31/05
Ashcroft & Jackson  mighetto | 10/31/05
Don't lose hope!  tic swayback | 10/31/05
And someday ZDNet will get their Talkbacks working properly...  tic swayback | 10/31/05
Riiiggghtt... and when that happens  Linux Advocate | 11/01/05
Microsoft not alone  Yensi717 | 10/31/05
not really  ickusslime@... | 10/31/05
No.  java.user | 10/31/05
I stand corrected  Mark Miller | 10/31/05
New alias?  Cardinal_Bill | 10/31/05
I'm usually against Microsoft.....  Sir_Chancealot | 10/31/05
What's really worse about this patent...  Taz_z | 10/31/05
Microsoft should have acquired  bjbrock | 10/31/05
Patent Office is taking care of it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/31/05
I hope so  Patrick Jones | 10/31/05
Really?  ShadeTree | 10/31/05
There is a more recent update on this...  dsentman@... | 10/31/05
No_ax's link was from 2 years ago  Mark Miller | 10/31/05
Yeah, it did look a little fishy  IT_User | 10/31/05
a PTO re-re-re-review is always good  andrewflagg@... | 10/31/05
How Do You Spell Microsoft?  itanalyst | 10/31/05
Will it make your day when...  John Zern | 10/31/05
A bit of a misnomer  Mark Miller | 10/31/05
Actually...the article appears to be correct  Mark Miller | 10/31/05
Software patents  Hemlock Stones | 10/31/05
Government trying to get more money out of microsoft.  igl1221_123 | 10/31/05
Um..  Patrick Jones | 10/31/05
Did they ever get more money than the multibillion TAX BREAKs? I wish  michael_t | 10/31/05
Patents???  mavedrive | 11/02/05
ROFL!  Kamikaze_Ohka | 11/02/05

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