Michael's Weblog

In this post I would just like to thank Eolas (this one, not the defunct one from Lewis) for their very helpful and not-remotely-frivilous lawsuit against Microsoft in 2004 with regard to patent 5,838,906. The one that prevents people from using Flash movies and other embedded content without clicking on it first. Honest, it's really not annoying to have to do that every 10 seconds when doing Cisco online courses using IE. And people wonder why we don't like the idea of software patents in Europe...