The Jackal-XMP said:
but i like teh poop jokes......
Thinking about this...what will become of Firefox? Will M$ try to sue Firefox because it's a far far better product, but does the same basic things?
Nothing will happen to
From the 5 minutes I spent looking around, they don't appear to own very many browser-related patents, except one related to using the tab key to switch through links
- this I find particularly strange since many web browsers have used that feature well before 1997, like
Lynx. Why did they even waste time and money patenting something so trivial?
To my knowledge Microsoft hasn't really gone after anyone for patent infringement yet, though they have done so for trademark infringement (correct me on this if I'm wrong). They have
their own cases pf petty patent infringement to look after.
And don't forget that Firefox is open-source, and any effort to shut it down based on patent can easily be shot down due to the widespread distribution and the ability to alter the source. It'd be a big stink anyway.
So yeah, nothing to worry about there.
Of course, people might have said the same thing about Yahoo with XFire. But maybe they wouldn't even bother going after it if it wasn't adware. From their Advertise page:
We offer the only way to reach these passionate gamers while they're actually playing games. Game publishers, movie studios and consumer brands have used Xfire's IAB-standard ad impressions and fully immersive sponsorships to reach their best buyers in an effective, hip, and truly unique way.
Maybe an open source alternative would be better.
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