I just figured they’d leave Mozilla/Firebird/all the rest alone just because they are little, and really don’t have billions of dollars to get, but you never know. I dropped an MPEG into Director last night, and laughed when it said OLE in the cast… Director’s has so many things like object plugin’s in it as well as streaming media + it itself streams… craziness.

woah. imagine if MM re-tooled Flash into the most amazing ASCII/ANSI art animation program ever made, and simply output DHTML instead of SWF! _that_ would be awesome! ;-)

actually, both cases apply directly to my day-job, as i’m building our new browser-based version of software entirely in Flash and IE and it includes a huge amount of streaming audio and video. i’ll be scared to see if any of this ends up actually adversely effecting us… at least i know we’ll get our high-powered attorneys involved and _that_ should be fun to watch.

g.

They would love to see the web die and all the competing technologies that take focus away form their services. Surely they don’t want to lose half a billion over it, but sending the web back to the stone age is a victory for MS.

the eolas case doesn’t just apply to ie and windows either. Mozilla, Macromeida, Adobe, among others are at all risk of being sued astronomical amounts of money.

Personally, i feel that 99% of software patents are absolultely useless, and just cheap stabs at building a legal arsenal to use against others.

I remember when inventions were actually that; one-click, plugins, give me a fucking break. That code isn’t worth half the paper it was printed on.

Dude, that’s crazy…! LOL, wtf. I wonder if Flashcom is a target too? I doubt I’m successful enough in my play toys to really warrant a suit (er, to really catch their attention). Still, that’s pretty funny how broad that patent is. I wonder whatever happened to that guy who patented “The Millineum” or however you spell it.