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This is really hard for me to say…
draws deeply
Come on Wert you can do it…
draws even more deeply
… There. Said it. goes off to a corner, feeling all disgusted
That wasn’t so hard, was it Wert?
But I see your point. That is not good for MS, and makes things harder on the majority of end users. Yay whee FUN.
taps Wert’s shoulder
I understand your pain, dude. But sometimes, an evil may only be faced by another evil.
It was bound to happen…( I knew what this thread was about before entering it something dealing with you saying something pro-MS)
Predictable.
If I were in charge of Eolas (and if I understand this case correctly), I would take the $521 million, then give everyone free license to use plug-ins and applets. Microsoft loses money, IE keeps its functionality, and Eolas comes out as a good guy.
Xwing1056
Originally posted by Xwing1056
[b]If I were in charge of Eolas (and if I understand this case correctly), I would take the $521 million, then give everyone free license to use plug-ins and applets. Microsoft loses money, IE keeps its functionality, and Eolas comes out as a good guy.Xwing1056 [/b]
I want to bear your children! How come nobody thought of this before?
Yeah, but is that likely to happen?
Originally posted by Ren
I want to bear your children! How come nobody thought of this before?
Because no investor would ever allow such a risky unorthodox action. Nothing like that has ever been done on such a scale and it would likely result in hundreds of millions of dollars lost.
There. Now you can have 1/1000 of a meal a day instead of 1/5000. walks out of Wert’s padded cell for Linux fanatics
Originally posted by Yar Kramer
Probably not, people rarely do what makes the most sense.
Originally posted by Ren
[b]taps Wert’s shoulderI understand your pain, dude. But sometimes, an evil may only be faced by another evil. [/b]
Fighting fire with fire.
Originally posted by CalebNova
Fighting fire with fire.
But you can use water for that…
((RPGClassics: Watch us get off topic =P))
Blinks Uh, yeah. Sorry Wert, you made me promise to do this… kills Wert … looks at contract Oh… oops, I was only supposed to kill you if you ever said something good about <I>XP</I>! Ehm, cookie?
Ethereal voice No, but I could use a Phoenix Down… Fricken’ oww ;_;
Old.
Too bad this isn’t enough to make Microsoft join the fight against software patents.
At the very least it will force them into redesigning Internet Explorer, which can only be a good thing.
Originally posted by Nulani
At the very least it will force them into redesigning Internet Explorer, which can only be a good thing.
It’s good in the, “Strike one against Microsoft!” sense, but unfortunate for people like me who use IE. Losing plug-ins and applets will maim the browser. Have you looked at Microsoft’s proposed methods to get around it? In short, they’re moderately effective (though not as effective as the current arrangement) and questionably legal due to the same patent. Microsoft loses, and everyone who uses IE loses.
Has anyone else seen the note (maybe in one of the related articles) that Eolas consists of one formal employee, a professor in California? That’s one of the reasons I thought of an alternative arrangement. He’s an individual who doesn’t have to worry about paying employees. Yeah, he’d lose money, but he’d still have $521 million. He woudn’t be guilty of singlehandedly clobbering a widespread software innovation, either.
Xwing1056
They’ve rearranged the menus enough.
Originally posted by Xwing1056
[b]It’s good in the, “Strike one against Microsoft!” sense, but unfortunate for people like me who use IE. Losing plug-ins and applets will maim the browser. Have you looked at Microsoft’s proposed methods to get around it? In short, they’re moderately effective (though not as effective as the current arrangement) and questionably legal due to the same patent. Microsoft loses, and everyone who uses IE loses.Has anyone else seen the note (maybe in one of the related articles) that Eolas consists of one formal employee, a professor in California? That’s one of the reasons I thought of an alternative arrangement. He’s an individual who doesn’t have to worry about paying employees. Yeah, he’d lose money, but he’d still have $521 million. He woudn’t be guilty of singlehandedly clobbering a widespread software innovation, either.
Xwing1056 [/b]
And Microsoft can’t use the same solutions as Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera?
Before this verdict Microsoft planned to let development on Internet Explorer to idle untill the release of Windows Longhorn. It is in the best interest of those who use Internet Explorer that, that happens, moreso than it is for those who don’t use Internet Explorer.
As for the rest. It is unfortunately his patent, and he has every right to enforce that patent. That is how software patents work.
Originally posted by Yar Kramer
They’ve rearranged the menus enough.
So freakin’ true it scares me.
Damn… I hope MS kicks there ass too… But it doesn’t seem likely…