What next? Patenting certain series of keystrokes? (Maybe I shouldn't give them ideas...)
Did I read this right? BTexact, the research arm of UK company BTInternet, has claimed to have a patent on — wait for it — hyperlinks.
There’s no story on this over at the Register, and they’re fairly equal-opportunity when it comes to laughing at Stupid Tech Company Tricks. Still, I’d love to know more about this. ZDNet is likely telling just enough to start some kind of grassroots movement. I find it a little scary to believe that amateur webmasters would have to pay for creating hyperlinks on their sites. Perhaps BT is hoping to milk money out of the companies that create and/or market HTML authoring tools.
If that’s the case, let’s hear it for hand-coding.
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