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Originally posted by berg.the.red
now on the "interesting" side of things ... why is it if i go to this page on acacia's web site and open the Hustler Signs PDF file it opens in adobe acrobat in a browser window ? which seems to be "encouraging infringement" .....
appears acacia isn't that concerned with "encouraging infringment" on the patents of others. just their own ...
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ahhahahahh... excellent point! By viewing the PDF from their website, Acacia is a contributory infringer to the Eolas patent....which M$ lost the court case and as you have been reading, besides having to pay like $531M in damages, they are removing ability to hahahahaha applications within the browser. (the easy workaround is to just make the external app launch, but there is a patent on this function as well!)
Conspiracy theorists ponder this: what if this was a way that m$ could now charge plugin companies like Macromedia and Real? That the next release of IE would have Windows Media hahahahahaed witin the browser, so as to not be hahahahahaed with the web page? What if M$ licensed Eolas patent, and convinced Eolas to not license the patent to other browsers?
Small diversion, now back to your regulary scheduled thread...
Fight the Patent!