[OT] browser plugin patents - warning!

[Dar Scott]

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Alex Rice wrote:

>> <What is REALLY irritating is that prior art on this is SOOOO bloody
>> obvious.>
>>
>> And yet MS's legion of attorneys could not prevail.
>> Wonder if they wanted to lose?
>
> People are assuming that Microsoft couldn't show prior art. But 
> remember there was no TCP/IP stack builtin to Windows until 1995. In 
> '93 Microsoft was just discovering the Internet - in a sense.

I don't think this patent requires TCP/IP.

Dar Scott