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Hopefully this time, someone will stop this madness.

How can someone patent something so abstract? And embeddable objects (OLE 1.0 anyone?!) have been in existence since 1990. How come it defers if they were embedded through an interpreted or a compiled application? Visual Basic was interpreted anyhow long before JavaScript or ActionScript.




Very dumb patent to give, Maybe at the time this was a fairly unique idea, but now it's common place for many many websites.

Hopefully taking action against so many companies will indicate to the courts how broad and obvious this idea they have patented is.


> Maybe at the time this was a fairly unique idea, but now it's common place for many many websites.

It would not be if Eolas could help it!


Funny because of what I remember Java applets were running inside the browser in 1995.




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