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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Saturday, August 24, 2002

Common sense prevails
In an all-too-uncommon backing of common sense, a US District Court refused to uphold British Telecom's supposed patent on hyperlinks, and dismissed a test case BT had launched against Prodigy Communications. If BT had won, of course, the company would have launched thousands of similar cases worldwide, which would have had a devastating effect on the Internet economy. And if you don't have enough reasons to hate BT already, consider this quote from BT Chairman "Sir" Christopher Bland, made when the court case had just started: "The case will go ahead," he said. "Everyone sues all the time in the States, anyway." Yeah, and the real losers get their cases thrown out in the States too. Now go back to being an historical footnote, you dinosaur.

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