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Offline gunug

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OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
« on: April 01, 2007, 04:29:23 AM »
The original article is in German:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87582

But Slashdot is saying this:

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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!   smile.gif
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OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2007, 03:21:46 PM »
Is that serious... NT = No Tabs? No way! laugh.gif
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« Reply #2 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!
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OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2007, 04:50:13 AM »
And the date the article was posted on was?......... biggrin.gif
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2007, 07:32:46 AM »
QUOTE(sandyman @ Apr 2 2007, 04:50 AM) [snapback]123621[/snapback]
And the date the article was posted on was?......... biggrin.gif


...should have considered the source. tongue.gif:
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« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2007, 08:41:08 AM »
Oh, darn; I guess I should've noticed that!   wink.gif
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OT: Mozilla Foundation is Suing Microsoft!
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2007, 01:06:04 AM »
Even if true, Microsoft could have responded with their own suit on "Tabbing".

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3406551
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