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posted by scubacuda
on Monday September 15, @12:24AM
from the steal-this-plugin dept.
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Jeffrey Zeldman discusses the implications of a federal judge's rejection of Microsoft’s post-trial claim that Eolas had misrepresented the facts in the patent case, which claimed the software giant had stolen browser technology relating to plug-ins. MS now must pay 1/2 billion dollars to the patent holder and cripple its market-leading browser so that IE/Windows to no longer seamlessly play Flash, Quicktime, RealVideo, Adobe Acrobat files, Java applets, and other rich media formats. Once MS does this, any site that uses these technologies will no longer work in the browser most people use. Writes Zeldman: The implications for Macromedia, maker of the most popular plug-in media in the web’s history, are not good. If the patent ruling stands, it will hurt web users, site owners and designers, and software companies (possibly ruining some of those companies) and will chill web development in untold ways. We find ourselves in the unaccustomed position of rooting for Microsoft.
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