On Thursday 15 Jan 2004 9:46 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:39:57 -0600 > > James Cammarata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Who the hell is Michael Doyle, you ask? > > > > That is NOT good news for anyone. This is a company (of 2 people) suing > > over an overly broad patent they weren't using for anything > > themselves. The implications for all software of this nature (embedded > > plug ins) is very far-reaching and could impact other browsers like > > Mozilla and Opera just as easily. > > > > Do not cheer for this case just because M$ is losing... > > You apparently didn't read the article. > > Quote: > > "EWeek reports that Doyle told them he has been: "in discussions with major > players in Linux world and working on plan to resolve '906 patent issue > with entire Linux community." Any solution, Doyle added, "Will be > supportive of open-source community."
Talk is cheap. A lot of the flak he is taking is coming from the OS people. Nothing says he has to stick to his word, or even the spirit of it, when he's $500M richer. His business model is worse than Microsoft's. We cheered when IBM went down, but Microsoft was worse. -- Richard Urwin
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