Marcel Popescu wrote: > > Has anybody seen this? http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2115385.html > > In short, British Telecom has a patent covering hyperlinking; they have just > discovered this, and it has already expired everywhere but in the US. a german group against software patents has written an open letter to BT, thanking them for their actions regarding that patent, since they're sure it will be an in-your-face demonstration of how stupid software patents are. plus it'll make the internet in general more expensive in the states, pushing europe very rapidly to the frontier in that area. :)
