- From: Dag Wieers <dag@wieers.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:22:00 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Nicholas Chase <nchase@earthlink.net>
- Cc: public-web-plugins@w3.org
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Nicholas Chase wrote: > Now, I hate to say this, because I'm not, in the grand scheme of > things, a Microsoft supporter, but I'm GLAD they're pulling the > plug on plug-ins. Let Eolas and U of C have their money, but I > don't want to continue to pay blood money to Eolas for something > that somebody else did 17 months before they filed their paperwork. > > And maybe, just maybe, Congress will wake up to how STUPID software > patents are. Microsoft cannot afford to question software patents in general (or this patent specifically) because it undermines one of the basic forces they rely on. I wonder how the US will ever get rid of software patents, since a lot of companies invested in it and maybe even rely on it. It's one of those things once brought to life, unable to kill. -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
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