xml-dev - RE: British Telecom owns Hyperlink?

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

It becomes a speed trap in a one highway 
town.  It isn't an issue of a responsibility 
to break it, but the lack of an alternate 
route to avoid it.

We have a major problem.  Our court systems 
aren't technically sharp enough to process 
these claims.  A new breed of CS lawyer is 
emerging as a result.  We have to watch this 
while the precedents are established, but 
don't neglect keeping the press both digital 
and print fully informed.

Len Bullard
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Reynolds [mailto:greynolds@greynolds.com]

But is BT's claim any more ridiculous than many other patently absurd claims
of a similar nature?  E.g. Microsoft's stylesheet patent, Amazon's
one-click, etc. etc.  In the face of such blatant legal stupidity (or is
"chicanery" more accurate?), does it not become the honest citizen's
responsibility to break the law?

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