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Post number 4848

bliss322 — Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:43:43 -0800

BT sues Prodigy over hyperlink patent another glorious example of "we have nothing better to offer than a really big lawsuit"

By: tomorama

tomorama — Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:52:42 -0800

It's all absurd and I doubt it would go through. Obvisously, BT doesn't own a history book, because there is evidence of demonstrations of hyperlinks with the first mouse that date back to the 60's. I'm not worrying.

By: grank

grank — Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:44:42 -0800

At first I thought you meant techno man BT was sueing the group Prodigy.....

By: beth

beth — Sat, 16 Dec 2000 20:19:10 -0800

This is insanely hilarious, almost. I mean, this is ten thousand times more ostentatiously absurd than Amazon's 1-click patent. I hope the fallout from this will be the wakeup call needed to reform the patent system, especially the software patent system. What would happen if everyone ignored absurd patents? I mean, they can't sue *everyone*...

By: bytecode

bytecode — Sun, 17 Dec 2000 18:55:04 -0800

ohhh.. I have a patent on text boxes. Everyone pay me! Man I'm getting tired of stories like this. Will they ever learn?

By: brittney

brittney — Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:03:03 -0800

ditto that grank. i thought "hyperlink" was some trance track or something.