Re: CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS

["Ed Jenkins" <digitalman2000hm@hotmail.com>]

The Brittish are coming!
The Brittish are coming!

This issue came up last year, but I guess it's just now going to court.  
They'll never get away with it.

But if they do manage to get away with it, I wouldn't be surprised if 
Microsoft or the W3C or somebody invents something new to make hyperlinks 
obsolete.

<quote>
But BT's Breneisen said outside court, "I think a jury that uses clicks on 
their computers every day will be able to see how that relates to this 
patent. It's an old patent but it's got an awful lot of similarities to 
certain things that are being used on the Internet."
</quote>

Yea, they'll see it.  They'll see it as a lame excuse for you to reach into 
their wallets.  They'll vote it down based on that.  There will be a press 
release saying that they honestly couldn't see the relation between then and 
now.  And that may be true.  But it won't matter.  In their hearts, they 
will think one thing:  BT stands for Brittish Tea party.

The hyperlink is dead!
Long live the hyperlink!

Ed

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From: "Minor, Eric" <Enm6@cdc.gov>
To: ajug-members@www.ajug.org
CC: "Hustins, Dana" <Azz3@cdc.gov>, "Gnanasigamani, Julius" <jqg7@cdc.gov>,  
  "Floria, John" <Fbj4@cdc.gov>
Subject: CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:25:27 -0500

  A British company is suing for patent rights to the "Hyperlink" we 
commonly
use on the internet and
wants to charge the millions of internet users for clicking on a hyperlink.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/11/hyperlink.claim.ap/index.html


Eric D. Minor
System Analyst III


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