RE: [Fwd: PATNEWS: Patent abstracts, Eolas workaround, filewrapper estoppel] from Neil Munro on 2003-09-10 (public-web-plugins@w3.org from September 2003)

From: Neil Munro <neil.munro@catalyse.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:13:29 +0100
To: <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000301c377d8$03f78420$0100a8c0@omnibook>

> Microsoft has claimed for years now that the browser is _AN 
> INTEGRAL PART_
> of the OS. In fact, they have made that a center piece of 

Maybe that's _WHY_ they've been trying to convince everyone IE is part of
the OS! The patent refers specifically to "a browser application"... I'm not
being serious but perhaps this approach could circumvent it.

Neil.

Received on Wednesday, 10 September 2003 16:13:50 UTC