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They didn't bleed enough from Microsoft so now they are going after other big names. No one is safe.
...Eolas would only sue MS. 
Stupid and blind indeed. The Eolas patent is particularly bad, but all software patents need to be eliminated. Just toss 'em all in the garbage can and revoke *all* of them.
Software is mathematics. Period. You can't patent mathematics. Or algorythms, come to that...
Stupid and blind indeed. The Eolas patent is particularly bad, but all software patents need to be eliminated. Just toss 'em all in the garbage can and revoke *all* of them.
Software is mathematics. Period. You can't patent mathematics. Or algorythms, come to that...
Face it, for every Eolas, there are at least four or five big tech companies that get license money from software patents, including Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe. The Business Software Alliance (to whom all the big players belong) bribed the Congress, FTC, and Patent Office to play things their way. Unless it becomes a burden to them, software patents will stay as they are, DMCA will still be around, and copyright law will favor companies who own the rights to long-deceased authors.
Get used to it.
Get used to it.
...if "Eolas the hero" suddenly becomes "Eolas the villain" by doing exactly what it did before.
Carl Rapson
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And who didn't see this coming? Its funny how everyone wanted them to win against Microsoft and cheered them on, but now I don't hear anyone cheering anymore.
Other than the regular predictable anti-MS zealots that post on boards such as these, most people DID see the writing on the wall and were hoping for an Eolas defeat.
that was to be sued, they "deserved it" was the phrase used.
Now it will not be so funny as many will claim that Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, Go Daddy, Google, JC Penney, JPMorgan Chase, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises, Staples, Sun, Texas Instruments, Yahoo and YouTube, the second round of defendants, do not deserve it.
And it is also time to remove the idiotic ability to sue everyone in Texas, a state where neither entity is located.
Now it will not be so funny as many will claim that Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, Go Daddy, Google, JC Penney, JPMorgan Chase, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises, Staples, Sun, Texas Instruments, Yahoo and YouTube, the second round of defendants, do not deserve it.
And it is also time to remove the idiotic ability to sue everyone in Texas, a state where neither entity is located.
level field of competition, they all are equal in the greed's eye.
So nobody bought up this company and/or its people and shipped it to the melting caps?
So nobody bought up this company and/or its people and shipped it to the melting caps?
Why sell for $100 million when you can sue for over a billion and still have ownership?
You'd have to pay over a billion dollars to convince them to sell. And who wants to spend that kind of money to kill their own reputation? In the end you're better off paying out only a couple hundred million and keeping your reputation intact.
You'd have to pay over a billion dollars to convince them to sell. And who wants to spend that kind of money to kill their own reputation? In the end you're better off paying out only a couple hundred million and keeping your reputation intact.
"Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document," which involved browsers launching a helper application such as Adobe Flash.
Could someone explain to me how Frito-Lay is infringing on this patent?
Could someone explain to me how Frito-Lay is infringing on this patent?
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