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Re: EOLAS ACQUIRES MILESTONE INTERNET SOFTWARE PATENT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pei@gnn.com)
Mon Aug 21 16:04:56 1995
From: pei@gnn.com
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:54:35 -0700
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> 8/21/95 CHICAGO: Eolas Technologies Inc. announced today that it has
> completed a licensing agreement with the University of California for the
> exclusive rights to a pending patent covering the use of embedded program
> objects, or "applets," within World Wide Web documents.
>
> Also covered is the use of any algorithm which implements dynamic
> bi-directional communications between Web browsers and external applications.
>[....]
I sincerely hope this patent isn't going to stick, for the good of
the web as a whole...
And for the record, I just want to point out that the
``technology which enabled Web documents to contain fully-interactive
"inline" program objects''
was existing in ViolaWWW and was *released* to the public, and in full
source code form, even back in 1993... Actual conceptualization and
existence occured before '93.
-Pei
pei@gnn.com
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