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what do you guys think of BT and teh link patents?

OscarWilde

Tue Feb 12 11:38:39 2002

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/11/hyperlink.claim.ap/index.html] So what do ya guys think huh? [/url]

personally i think it would suck if BT actually thinks we owe them money for some arcahic patent on something that isn't even related.

Think about it. You might have to pay more to use the internet and all that money goes to BT because they think that links is an invention and not an obvious requirement.

However I think BT should sue Msoft for the web browser style GUI in Windows. I can't remember the number of times i've seen idiots double click on desktop links. Worse is when i see them double click on a link on websites.


argh!!!

I HATE STUPID PEOPLE!!!!!

Imitation Gruel

Tue Feb 12 12:22:54 2002

It would truly be [color=red][font=arial][size=25]SUCKTACULAR[/size][/font][/color] if the outcome of this case is more expensive internet access.

I think one of the few major things holding back the internet from really being pervasive in our lives is the inherent cost. Anything that raises said cost = teh lose.

HitScan

Tue Feb 12 13:07:40 2002

Kill them. Scatter their IP to the winds and let AT&T move in. They'll treat the british right, promise. ;)
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Tue Feb 12 14:48:13 2002

The suit will never fly.

It looks like BT is counting on expanding language to broad meaning.  IIRC, I don't think that's going to fly.  From what I'm told it isn't tough to get around patents in many cases.  Any variation from the BT patent and the way things are done now will count monumentally against them.

Plus there's the issue of time which could get everyone off scott free if it could be shown that so much time passed between the 1976 filing and the internet revolution, but I am unfamiliar with that part.

Harbinger

Tue Feb 12 15:41:01 2002

I didn't read the link, so forgive me if I'm off target.

<supposition>
Isn't Tim Berners-Lee considered the 'father' of hyperlinking documents?  If so, wouldn't this have some bearing on BT's supposed patent?
</supposition>

My intarweb history may be faulty; if it is, please send me some beer. ;)

DrPizza

Tue Feb 12 17:39:05 2002

Having not read the BT patent, it's hard to comment, really.

The article is pretty unhelpful -- it seems that the judge is being deliberately dunderheaded, that's all.

If BT have patented hyperlinking, more power to them.

Magus

Tue Feb 12 22:01:30 2002

I thought Doug Englebert invented the hyperlink?
Madan

Tue Feb 12 22:39:20 2002

Stupidity <> Double clicking.

Your mom would probably do so and I doubt you'd call her "stupid".

She's and everyone else is uneducated in l33t web stuff. There's a diff.

BTW, Thalia is hot.

M.

(Edited by Madan at 2:40 pm on Feb. 12, 2002)

DuffMan

Wed Feb 13 01:11:31 2002

BT is a load of Poo.