A US court ruling that Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser infringes a patent owned by a one-man firm will disrupt the entire web, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) warns.
Going in to bat for Microsoft and "all users that depend on the web every day", W3C director and web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee says the patent is invalid due to "prior art".
He says the court decision will cause "substantial economic and technical damage" to web users and developers.
|