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   CraptiveX

   

   brade, Aug 29th, 2003 @ 10:37am

   
   

   ActiveX does not work, I would love to see the end of it and Flash. If MS looses half a Billion in the process then we are all better off.

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   Patents should NOT apply to software!

   

   Joe A., Aug 29th, 2003 @ 11:17am

   
   

   Great quote from http://swpat.ffii.org/:
   "If Haydn had patented 'a symphony, characterised by that sound is produced [ in extended sonata form ]', Mozart would have been in trouble."
   
   Patent laws and applications are quite simply not ready to handle software patents.
   

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   No Subject Given

   

   Ed Halley, Aug 29th, 2003 @ 11:18am

   
   

   Exactly how are 'all browsers' affected, again? Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon, Epiphany, Opera, lynx, links, and so on? Even if the patent somehow covers items found in those browsers, they'll have to chase the authors/publishers of those browsers.

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 29th, 2003 @ 11:39am

   
   

   Patent laws are archaic and need to change, otherwise innovation will suffer.

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   All browsers

   

   Patrick, Aug 29th, 2003 @ 11:44am

   
   

   All web browsers are affected because the patent is for "...technology that allows users to access interactive programs embedded in Web pages."
   
   How utterly ridiculous. Too bad the mosaic people didn't just patent the web browser itself, and we wouldn't be dealing with any of this idiocy. However, as per a previous post, there could be some good that comes from this--I'm sick and tired of flash, et al.

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   No Subject Given

   

   Chad, Sep 1st, 2003 @ 12:59pm

   
   

   This seems like something a smart politician should grab onto. It costs our economy when ridiculous patents like this are granted.

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   Re: No Subject Given

   

   Bastard SAM, Sep 1st, 2003 @ 6:28pm

   
   

   It's really something. Micrsoft keeps losing these cases by the incompetence of their own lawyers and the industry suffers. Maybe we should sponsor microsoft's legal defense. Couldn't do much worse.

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   Re: CraptiveX - good riddance Flash

   

   a real programmer, Sep 15th, 2003 @ 8:58pm

   
   

   I dont like patents and I dont like microsoft,
   but I do agree that if this puts Flash and all the wannabe web 'programmers' who use it out of business, then good.
   
   Flash is for losers.

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   Re: CraptiveX - good riddance Flash

   

   a real webcomic fan, Oct 31st, 2005 @ 12:57pm

   
   

   what about homestar runner? They use flash how it should be used, there's nothing wrong with that.
   
   Any programming language is for losers when said loser uses it badly.

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