September 21, 2003

After initially suggesting that he will deny Microsoft a license to use his conversion and disputed patent for plug-in applications within Internet Explorer, Eolas founder Mike Doyle now says he just wants Microsoft to pay him for a license. A possible reason for t he turn around is that Microsoft is organizing meetings to with members of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to determine how to change Internet Explorer to avoid the patent thus making Doyle the man who will cause W3C to have to do a lot of costly work to get their sites to work again. Hopefully the weight of prior art will allow Microsoft to squash this patent on such a simple idea – launching an external application when processing an embedded tag in a document stream. 5:53:42 PM

Bye-bye Galileo. Next vistor to Jupiter – the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. 5:43:37 PM