Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 6th Oct 2009 21:43 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
The patent wars rage on. Eolas, a company that before won US$585 million from Microsoft in 2003 in a suit that challenged the use of ActiveX and AJAX, is now after twenty-three separate companies allegedly because their precious patent was spoiled by all of them.
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Maybe one day these bastards will sue each other into oblivion, then we can have an end to this nonsense.
"Hey, you've got windows in your app with drop-shadows... I own that sh!t! Pay up, or else!!!!"
Note: I'm not totally anti-patent such that if you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars creating something very specific (such as a media codec), you should be able to collect royalties when people use it, but some of this stuff is just way over the top.
Edited 2009-10-06 21:53 UTC