stop the world, i want off

This is first time i've rooted for Microsoft :-) If Eolas win this case, and IE has to be changed - in particular with regards to the way it launches / deals with Flash - it's going to be a major pain in the ass for me. And the web world! This has to be a flaw in the patent system - I mean if one company can try, after all this time and effort, to undo everyone's efforts to make a "patent free world wide web", then something has to be wrong here.

The actual patent details can be found here.
IE patent endgame detailed (news.com) and Microsoft preps IE changes in response to patent ruling (The Register).

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