Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing

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According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7. The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California. The Foundation wants that MS immediately ceases to distribute IE 7 and pays 1.4 Billion dollars in damages. Heise reports that Microsoft has issued no official response, but is contemplating to ship IE 7 NT (no tabs).

So, remember folks

[91degrees]

If you want to be corporately evil without the hoards of geekdom realising it, be evil on April the first.

Today is the day when Microsoft could start a hostile takeover of every linux company, and Google could announcetheir new policy of "Hang it, we'll start worshipping satan", without anyone being the wiser.

Good day

[SolitaryMan]

I always thought April 1st is the best day for suing someone :)

OK!

[Centurix]

I knew keeping my Netscape shares would pay off one day!

No hoax foax

[Joebert]

It's no hoax folks.
April Fools' day was moved to April 2nd when the United States adjusted Daylight Savings Time this year.

Re:No hoax foax

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought EVERY day in the USA was fools day what with Bush being President.

wtf???

[sharperguy]

wtf???

I own the patents to jokes like this!!!

/me goes off to sue /.

:P

Re:It is already April 1st in Germany

[name*censored*]

Ah, but is living in the future REALLY worth the burden of having to live in New Zealand?

(ps. it's a joke)

Re:Ponies!! Ponies!!

[Lars T.]

I want to see some ponies! pink ones! slashdot is lame.

You must not be that new here.

No!

[turing_m]

Mozilla should hold out for...

One hundred billion dollars!!!

Re:Boo Mozilla!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah. Nobody appreciates (or even notices) subtle puns any longer. Or reads the article(s) cited, for the matter.

Perhaps I was a little too subtle. Next time, it's strictly "OMFG PONIES!" That way, if anyone rates that "overrated", Taco will come down from on high and turn their css all pink.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Self-referential post attempt

[saskboy]

"This post is modded +5, Informative!"

Now for a challenge:
This post is modded +5 Redundant