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Saturday 20 September 2003
unsore losers?
It’s difficult to tell who’s the more greedy in the ongoing saga of Eolas v. Microsoft. Eolas’ Michael Doyle claims he’s willing to settle the spat if Microsoft pays licensing fees in addition to the $512 million dollar settlement Eolas won earlier this month.
Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler is quoted as saying that Microsoft likes its “prospects” on appeal, and feels that the Eolas patent is invalid.
The Eolas patent covers technology which the IE Web browser uses for plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash. If Eolas prevails, it could mean dramatic repercussions for many Web site owners, who will be forced to re-author thousands of Web documents that rely on plug-in technology to work.
To confuse the issue even more, it’s been suggested that darker forces are at work on Microsoft’s end, with Microsoft actually wanting to lose the argument for motives of its own.
With plenty of outcry in the developer community and the popular belief that Web technologies should remain open standards, one has to wonder if the Eolas licensing strategy is motivated by an agenda of its very own, too.
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Posted by: site admin | 3:14 am |
September 20th, 2003 at 4:31 am
::: Standing on soapbox :::
Ahem…
It is entirely possible that MS and B’illgatesbub are positioning themselves to muscle out Macromedia and other “plug-in media” providers with the next release of Windows (codename: Lardass).
If they’re lucky, Web users will view MS as the victim here, only knowing that their browsers were crippled by one lawsuit among many that Microsoft must swat away like so many biplanes buzzing the empire state building. And if Microsoft is even luckier, they’ll be viewed as heroes when their built-in media player steps in to fill the gap left by their fallen competition (Flash, Real Player, et al).
I guess the questions you must ask yourself are:
1. Would you, as Microsoft, pay 521 million dollars to eliminate your competition - the very competition who sues you daily - and to have it done for you in such a way as to be viewed “innocent” in the whole affair? And could they be this lucky or did they make a bit of their own luck?
2. How long do you think this cluster-f will go on by itself before some yutz in congress who barely knows how to answer his e-mail declares it a national crisis and muddies the waters even more?
Personally, I don’t believe in luck, so you know how I feel.
::: stepping off of soapbox :::
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September 22nd, 2003 at 1:48 am
If Microsoft does position Macromedia out of the way, as Keith suggests, a question arises: what does MS have in the way of an authoring tool alternative ? Liquid Motion died a horrible death truly fitting of a horrible program (sorry, LM programmers!) and should be left well enough alone.
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