- From: Mike Doyle <miked@eolas.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:14:59 -0700
- To: pei@gnn.com
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Pei, We've had this discussion before (last September, remember?). You admitted then that you did NOT release or publish anything like this before the Eolas demonstrations. >> 8/21/95 CHICAGO: Eolas Technologies Inc. announced today that it has >> completed a licensing agreement with the University of California for the >> exclusive rights to a pending patent covering the use of embedded program >> objects, or "applets," within World Wide Web documents. >> >> Also covered is the use of any algorithm which implements dynamic >> bi-directional communications between Web browsers and external applications. >>[....] > >I sincerely hope this patent isn't going to stick, for the good of >the web as a whole... > >And for the record, I just want to point out that the > ``technology which enabled Web documents to contain fully-interactive > "inline" program objects'' >was existing in ViolaWWW and was *released* to the public, and in full >source code form, even back in 1993... Actual conceptualization and >existence occured before '93. > >-Pei > >pei@gnn.com >http://ebay.gnn.com/people/pei/home.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael D. Doyle, Ph.D. http://www.eolas.com Chairman and CEO voice:312/337-8748 Eolas Technologies Incorporated fax: 312/337-8743 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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