Eolas wants Microsoft to stop browser distribution

ZDNet-UK ^ | October 09, 2003, 09:00 BST | Paul Festa

[N3WBI3]

Not at all Dell could remove IE from its image and ship Opera, Mozilla, or any number of browsers..

[Nick Danger]

No, driver, don't stop. There's nothing we can do. Just keep going.

[Peelod]

I think burst.com is trying to do the same thing regarding streaming/bursting video in Windows Media Player 9.

FR had a thread on the topic a few months ago.

[NotQuiteCricket]

I've seen other articles on this suit (post-dating this one from October), one seemed to definitively refute the patent with prior art...I didn't post it here, because there didn't seem to be any interest.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Opera, Mozilla, etc. would have the same trouble.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In internet related patents, I believe there needs to be something akin to the music industry's "compulsory licensing." I.e. if the patentor or his licensee ever uses the patent in commerce, then he must license it to all comers, short of executing a deliberately cumbersome legal procedure on a case by case basis that requires a trial to adjudicate. Otherwise we continue to flirt with a situation like this, where someone tries to grab the entire internet by the tail and throw it down.