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May 5th, 2001, 12:32 PM
#1
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
Intersting fact about hyperlinks
Did you know that hyperlinks are patented? They were developed by a British Telecom technician as a way to link documents together, so everytime you use one, you are infringing on their patent.
Think how much money they could have made in royalties!!
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May 5th, 2001, 12:39 PM
#2
transcendental analytic
i thought hypertext/links concept was stolen from project Xanadu
Use  
writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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May 5th, 2001, 12:51 PM
#3
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
Well BT own the patent. Whether they stole it or not I don't know.
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May 5th, 2001, 01:17 PM
#4
transcendental analytic
me either, better to say you don't know than to know but not say.
Use
writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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May 5th, 2001, 01:40 PM
#5
Monday Morning Lunatic
So did you miss the ruckus many months ago, then? They've given up trying to enforce this, since their patent idea is virtually nothing like the links on web pages. They tried suing a number of ISPs, without success.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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May 5th, 2001, 01:46 PM
#6
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
I knew they were thinking of getting royalties from ISP's but that is the last I heard of it. It's probably the actual idea of hyperlinks they patented as well as the technology. To try and get some return now though is madness because there is this "sqatters-esque" rule that if someone has/uses something long enough, hard cheese.
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May 5th, 2001, 01:46 PM
#7
Originally posted by parksie
So did you miss the ruckus many months ago, then? They've given up trying to enforce this, since their patent idea is virtually nothing like the links on web pages. They tried suing a number of ISPs, without success.
Typical BT, always wanting more money 
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May 5th, 2001, 01:48 PM
#8
Monday Morning Lunatic
I didn't know it was possible to patent an idea 
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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May 5th, 2001, 01:49 PM
#9
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
Originally posted by chenko
Typical BT, always wanting more money
Probably something to do with their £30 billion debt thanks to 3G licence bidding and the prospect of losing their Class A credit rating. Not so long ago BT could have taken over the world - now they're just screwed.
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May 5th, 2001, 01:51 PM
#10
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
Originally posted by parksie
I didn't know it was possible to patent an idea
Yeah, I did this whole thing on it in A Level Business. About these geezers who wanted to market an idea they had, only to find someone had already patented that idea, so they had to pay him royalites (case study kind of thing)
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May 5th, 2001, 01:52 PM
#11
Hyperactive Member
Originally posted by chrisjk
. Not so long ago BT could have taken over the world - now they're just screwed.
What a shame B****** Telecom are too greedy for my liking
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May 5th, 2001, 01:58 PM
#12
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
True, but they do have a f**k-off big debt. I mean, £30billion is insane, the GDP of some countries!!
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May 5th, 2001, 02:01 PM
#13
Monday Morning Lunatic
And considering our government has similar amounts from about 6 companies...
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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May 5th, 2001, 02:04 PM
#14
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
I reckon it was all a bit stupid as they spent all that money getting 3G licences, now they don't have enough to develop the handsets!! I mean, commercial suicide or what?!?
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May 5th, 2001, 02:39 PM
#15
Originally posted by chrisjk
I reckon it was all a bit stupid as they spent all that money getting 3G licences, now they don't have enough to develop the handsets!! I mean, commercial suicide or what?!?
3G???
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May 5th, 2001, 02:48 PM
#16
Frenzied Member
I think they're licenses for using particular radio frequencies for mobile communications. The 3G stands for '3rd Generation' I think, meaning it's 3rd generation mobile communication technology. Err... I expect someone here knows better than me 
Harry.
"From one thing, know ten thousand things."
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May 5th, 2001, 02:51 PM
#17
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
I expect someone here knows better than me
nope harry, that's spot on.
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May 5th, 2001, 03:44 PM
#18
Hyperactive Member
Wow! I've been out of touch. What happened for BT to go £30b in debt?
(Can't say I'm sorry though, they were a bunch of money grabbing b*stards when I lived there).
SD
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy!"
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May 5th, 2001, 04:25 PM
#19
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
acquisitions, loss-making projects, bidding for 3G licences mainly though.
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