---Micro$oft Wins 'Tabbed Browsing' Patent---

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Alex said:
Anybody with sense.

This means that producers of other internet browsers now have to find
the money to either pay M$ licensing fees, or to fight them in court.

Either of which means they aren't spending as much on development and
support as they could be, which costs everybody using browsers other
than IE, in the long run.
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Legal action is a twin edged sword for Microsoft, though. If they pursue
an action against someone stubborn enough (eg, me), they risk losing, in
which case their patent is worthless for use against easier targets.

Sylvia.
 
Alex Heney said:
Anybody with sense.

This means that producers of other internet browsers now have to find
the money to either pay M$ licensing fees, or to fight them in court.
Wrong.

Either of which means they aren't spending as much on
development and support as they could be, which costs
everybody using browsers other than IE, in the long run.
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Wrong again.
 
Predator said:
more likely to prevent a small company that holds the patent to use them. I
don't think you've heard of the EOLAS patent case,
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No, I've heard of that one too.
basically they sued
microsoft for half a billion dollars for something simple as downloading and
executing a control from a webpage (yes that was the patent). And they won.
Microsoft is appealing right now but ever since that time they've been on a
patent shopping spree patenting every little thing they can find.

The patent problem isn't a microsoft problem, it is the patent office
granting stupid patents and causing all sorts of trouble
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I would say that both are guilty of causing problems. Still, if it
gets the problem discussed (as here in these groups) and better laws
are passed, then some good may come out of it.
 
John Corliss wrote:

I would say that both are guilty of causing problems. Still, if it gets
the problem discussed (as here in these groups) and better laws are
passed, then some good may come out of it.
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I rather doubt that anything said here has any influence at all on
legislation.

Sylvia.
 
It seems a feature of some companies to pursue a kind of "scattergun"
strategy to the law; viz if you throw enough shit at the wall, then, by
the sheer force of probability, some of it is bound to stick.

Inch by inch, the whole system seems to decay into farce. Like butter
onto bread, it's easier to spread than to unspread.
 
Sylvia said:
John Corliss wrote:




I rather doubt that anything said here has any influence at all on
legislation.

Sylvia.
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When a butterfly flaps its wings, the result is that a star moves
somewhere in the universe.
 
Rod Speed said:
Even you should be able to do better than that pathetically hoary old
line.
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Yes, but can you?

Hello, Rodley Poo. Going to run away yet again, are you?
 
You really need a drink/drugs detector on your 'send' button, don't you?
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Dszady is a heavy drinker, who claimed in a post I have archived. That
he gets that "Cringed" feeling sometimes before he hits the send
button.
 
Night2000 said:
Dszady is a heavy drinker, who claimed in a post I have archived. That
he gets that "Cringed" feeling sometimes before he hits the send
button.
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I've been there. Dashing to usenet the next morning to read the
appalling evidence of last night's transgressions.
I have a moderately efficient alcohol sensor on Alt+S these days :-)
 
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