According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7. The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California. The Foundation wants that MS immediately ceases to distribute IE 7 and pays 1.4 Billion dollars in damages. Heise reports that Microsoft has issued no official response, but is contemplating to ship IE 7 NT (no tabs).
Oh, I love the smell of litigation in the morning! Especially against M$oft!
Title: OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
Post by: Gregg on April 01, 2007, 03:21:46 PM
Is that serious... NT = No Tabs? No way!
Title: OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
Post by: gunug on April 01, 2007, 03:30:11 PM
They'll probably call it Internet Explorer NT for "new technology" because they've already got a copyright on that name!
Title: OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
Post by: sandyman on April 02, 2007, 04:50:13 AM
And the date the article was posted on was?.........
Title: OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
Post by: Gregg on April 02, 2007, 07:32:46 AM