A request to federal regulators by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to invalidate a controversial patent rests on shaky ground, according to an attorney representing the patent holder. That patent for embedding components into Web pages must be revoked to “prevent substantial economic and technical damage to the operation of the World Wide Web,” wrote Tim Berners-Lee, director of the W3C, in a letter sent to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Hi friends, just to tell you that whatever fail the tribunals will make, it will come too late. Microsoft as all of you know by now, will launch its next browser with a pop-up window that will oblige any user to 'Accept' (that's it, no other choice) whenever the IExplorer detects an embed object (a flash movie, a sound, an embed java script, ...). There will be no choice for millions of developers neither: Or we change our pages, or we will loose visitors. Nobody will understand that this is just part of the game of Microsoft, nobody will change to another browser. Therefore, and knowing that there won't be a miracle that stops Microsoft from this ugly way of getting rid of royalty payments and competitors, we have launched an international action. At http://www.almas.tv/ciencia/embed.html nearly 2000 webmasters have signed in (Spanish speaking). When the figure arrives at 10.000, we will take legal action. As well we will start different highly combative campaigns. Best wishes, Miguel Furlock
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Eolas Attorney Refutes W3C Objections to Web Patent
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 30, 2003 02:20 PMA request to federal regulators by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to invalidate a controversial patent rests on shaky ground, according to an attorney representing the patent holder. That patent for embedding components into Web pages must be revoked to “prevent substantial economic and technical damage to the operation of the World Wide Web,” wrote Tim Berners-Lee, director of the W3C, in a letter sent to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
just to tell you that whatever fail the tribunals will make, it will come too late.
Microsoft as all of you know by now, will launch its next browser with a pop-up window that will oblige any user to 'Accept' (that's it, no other choice) whenever the IExplorer detects an embed object (a flash movie, a sound, an embed java script, ...).
There will be no choice for millions of developers neither: Or we change our pages, or we will loose visitors. Nobody will understand that this is just part of the game of Microsoft, nobody will change to another browser.
Therefore, and knowing that there won't be a miracle that stops Microsoft from this ugly way of getting rid of royalty payments and competitors, we have launched an international action.
At http://www.almas.tv/ciencia/embed.html nearly 2000 webmasters have signed in (Spanish speaking). When the figure arrives at 10.000, we will take legal action. As well we will start different highly combative campaigns.
Best wishes,
Miguel Furlock