View Full Version : The patent fight that could disrupt the Internet


w7aggag
"Although it is unclear what injunctive relief may be ordered beyond the monetary damages, it appears as though Microsoft may be left with no choice but to disable the plug-in architecture that so many Web users depend on for experiencing dynamically driven content via technologies like Adobe's Acrobat (for PDF files), Apple's QuickTime, Macromedia's Flash, RealNetworks' Real Player, and Sun's Java Virtual Machine. Web users as well as the many content authors who may have to retroactively reprogram their interactive content should be outraged. Not to mention Apple, Macromedia, Real, Sun and other vendors of technologies that depend on the presence of the plug-in architecture. . ."

read here:
http://madpenguin.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index

comment: If this happens, then my stargell with plugins under linux would not be worse than MS one.......
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alaa
this post has nothing to do with X-Windows or Linux Support?? why is it in this forum??

and there is alreadya thread open about the topic you should have trid to use that.

w7aggag
Originally posted by alaa
this post has nothing to do with X-Windows or Linux Support?? why is it in this forum??

have trid to use that.

plugins has to do with x windows such as kde and gnome....thats what came in to my mind...at least.......


QUOTE]Originally posted by alaa
and there is alreadya thread open about the topic you should have trid to use that. [/QUOTE]

i did not thought of doing a search in the site before adding the link.....will, i don't think that this is the *natural* reaction of any body to cheack for what ever he want to post as "if u want to call it news or a`7er `7bar" was posted underlining that i cheack the site for the last and most active threads 4,5 and some times more than 12 times aday for the last 2 weeks or so.
anyway
ma3lish matiz3alsh, 7a2ak 3alayyah.....i did not mean to cluter ur forum.
maybe i should've contributed a riddle insted.