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Later in 1998, Microsoft menaced the World Wide Web, by obtaining a patent affecting style sheets&mdash;after encouraging the WWW Consortium to incorporate the feature in the standard. It's not the first time that a standards group has been lured into a patent's maw. Public reaction convinced Microsoft to back down from enforcing this patent; but we can't count on mercy every time.