Steve Habib Rose
On Mon, 21 Aug 1995 pei@gnn.com wrote:
> > 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
>
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