Yahoo will be announcing on Monday that it has purchased Arlo Rose’s Konfabulator for an undisclosed amount of money. Yahoo will also be announcing that it will drop the price for Konfabulator from the current $19.99 to zero. That’s right. Zippo. Nada. And that’s pretty konfabulous.

Konfabulator is the original software which gave Mac enthusiasts the popular “widgets”. In fact, they are so popular that Apple decided to borg the widget concept into its Dashboard for Tiger.

However there is no question but that Arlo Rose’s widgets came first, and indeed Aunty is given pause to wonder whether Yahoo has acquired the full IP rights to Konfabulator, and, if so, whether they will be pressing those rights legally in Apple’s face?

However, IP rights are not the reason that Yahoo is claiming that they made the acquisition. According to a report in Macworld, Yahoo courted Konfabulator because Yahoo wanted…

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