Comments on: Supreme Court won't review Microsoft patent appeal

With Microsoft facing preliminary verdict of more than $500 million for alleged patent infringement, proceedings now continue before federal district judge.

[Earl Benser]

Sounds like it's time....

... for MS to throw more money on the table, like maybe 500
million or so.

[alecm3]

I wonder

Just how much money will Mozilla, Opera or Apple (Safari) will have to throw on the table - they all have infringing browsers...
Having one-man company own a part of the free HTML standard (object and embed tags) is NOT a good idea.

[shortyness]

Please rewrite

It would be every web surfer's dream if Internet Explorer was rewritten so it could not display those CPU hogging, in-your-face type annoying Macromedia Flash advertisements.
Only then we can view still pictures and news without all the distractions.

[alecm3]

Oh Yeah?

Have you heard of Flickr.com, Youtube.com or Chatango.com - they all use Flash! And they have a lot of users, and it's not their users dream to stop using them.

[Karios Kasra]

Not every surfer's dream.

If IE were re-written to exclude annoying protocols and scripts, others will rise to take their place. The market is built like this for atypical people with the drive to install a flashblocker to enjoy better browsing, while leaving those other apathetic folks to their own devices. It works out perfectly.

[Bill Dautrive]

Irony

Irony: Microsoft complaininfg about other abusing the patent system

This is reason #101000111000001111000110101011001101 why software patents need to be banned.

Copyright is all that is needed.